Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry (12th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0321908449
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-844-5

Chapter 1 - Section 1.4 - Key Math Skills for Chemistry - Understanding the Concepts - Page 20: 1.33b

Answer

This statement is a hypothesis (H).

Work Step by Step

The sentence: "Dinosaurs became extinct when a large meteorite struck the Earth and caused a huge dust cloud that severely decreased the amount of light reaching the Earth." states a possible $explanation$ for the dinosaur extinction, therefore, we can classify it as a hypotesis.
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