A scientist finds a snail fossil in a layer of rock in a desert which action would help the scientist determine what the environmental conditions may have been when the snail existed?

you can suppose from that statement alone that the snail lived in. climate that was humid, wet and full of life in the past. you can also see the stratus of rock layers fo determine how long it could have been, and use carbon dating as a sure way to get the dating and time period correctly.

answer:

the water molecules are transferred from the roots to the stem or top parts of the tall tree because of important properties of water which are adhesion, cohesion and capillary action. cohesion is the property of water molecules keeps water molecules in a combined state by sharing of bonds between them at the atomic level. adhesion allows the interaction of water molecules with other substances or substrate. adhesion will cause the attachment of water molecules to the wall of the vessel (xylem) of the plant. capillary action occurs when the adhesive force to the vessel wall is stronger than the cohesive force between water molecules. capillary action mimics the transfer of water from a tube or pipe. in this way water utilizes its property to transfer water from down to top level of the plant.  

ya the other dude is right