[Answer] 10. You are interested in doing an experiment on bacteria. You notice that bacteria tend to grow on agar gel. Every time you look at a dish of agar, you see bacterial colonies. What do you call this step of the scientific method?

Step 1 : Introduction to the question "10. You are interested in doing an experiment on bacteria. You notice that bacteria tend to grow on agar gel. Every time you look at a dish of agar, you see bacterial colonies. What do you call this step of the scientific method?"

...1. Observation 2. Theory 3. Fact 4. Hypothesis You looked at something and noticed it. That's the first step of the method!