Question

what's a prediction

Answer 1

First of all, we have to know what is hypothesis:

Hypothesis is the general statement which tells about the experiment that how it will work and tells how it is based on natural phenomenon.

Now prediction tells that how will you demonstrate your experiment to check whether your hypothesis is true or not.

For example in tomato plants experiment, our prediction is that increase in amount of sunlight will increase yield in tomato plant as compared to plant is grown under normal conditions.