Explain five physical and/or chemical properties that you need to consider for the substances before using them as construction materials for buildings

 There are many properties of a metal which is taken into consideration when it is used for construction

Explanation:

The properties can be physical, chemical, et cetera. The physical properties that is considered are:

1. Durability:  It can be defined as the property of the material to withstand the atmospheric pressure and other factors.

2. Density: The ratio of mass by volume of a material (homogeneous material) is called as density.

3. Fire resistance: The ability of the material to withstand in fire without changing its size or shape.

4. Weather resistance: The ability of the material to withstand the weather which could be variable round the year.

5.Water absorption: The ability of the material to absorb water and retain it.

1. the question asks the most appropriate, which seems to rule out "all of the above." your choice appears to be the correct one.

2. the protocol described is good for identifying correlation, but not cause and effect. for cause/effect, you need to devise a protocol that will assign the treatment (or not) to groups that have essentially the same "demographics" with respect to all the other variables. your choice regarding control group seems appropriate. random assignment of treatment (choice d) may be appropriate also. (i think you can argue that b and d are just different descriptions of the same method.)

3. d will randomize the birds, but may not guarantee there are 10 in each group. e will do both, so seems the better choice.

comment on question 2

based on the problem statement, it seems clear that confident, attentive drivers are more likely to use daytime running lights. so, the protocol might need to be devised in such a way that the lights would be turned on or off without the driver's knowledge. (an attentive driver will figure it out.) assigning a confident, attentive driver to a group required to drive without running lights might mess with his/her confidence and attentiveness. you don't want your experiment to do that. (nor do you want the experiment to subject a driver to greater risk of accident as a consequence of driving without running lights.) experiments involving human safety are always problematic.