Question

1. once youve come up with several ----------------------------- or ideas about the possible causes of the problem, its time to test them to see if any are correct. definitions hypotheses descriptions words

Explanation:

Definitions are statements of the meaning of a word or phrase. Descriptions are accounts of the characteristics of something. Words are just units of language. Hypotheses are proposed explanations or ideas that can be tested. In the context of testing possible causes of a problem, hypotheses fit best as they are the ideas that need to be verified.

Answer:

hypotheses