Question

To test how fertilizer affects tomato plants , a farmer divided a field of young tomato plants into 10 plots of equal size. The farmer then put fertilizer on half of the plots and no fertilizer on the other half of the plots. The control group in this experiment was :

Answer 1

the controlled is the fertilized crops why that is is becuase he is checking those crops more often and proably has irrigation pivits or lines in that crop so he can controll the water regulation and how much fertilizer that is in the pivit lines unlike the non fertilized crops where he is probaly dry cropping which is where u do not water ur crops u let it get water from the ground or from the sky

Answer 2

Control Group - tomato crop on which no fertilizer is applied

Step-by-step explanation:

The control group in this experiment is the tomato crop on which no fertilizer is applied.

A control group in an experiment is the group on which the testing/treatment with in an experiment is not applied in order to compare it with the group that receives the testing/treatment.

Hence, tomato crop (which do not receive fertilizer) are the ones whose production will be compared with the tomato crops that receive fertilizers.