Variables
Variable being measured.
What is the dependent variable ?
what the A in GISCMAR represents
What is Average?
the variable which goes on the x-axis?
What is Independent variable ?
The points on the graph are 72, 25, 32, and 49. Find the mean .
What is 44.5?
True or false. A law is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed through test.
What is false - that is a theory ?
the three types of variables identified in every experiment.
What are controlled, dependent, and independent variables?
If it is difficult to obtain statistical/numerical data scientist may find _____ data instead
What is Qualitative?
The words represented by TALKS
What is Title, Axis, Labels, Key, Scale ?
A graph shows the number of animals alive as 50 in a grassy habitat , 100 in a water based habitat, and 20 in a desert like habitat. Name the best location for this animal to live
What is water?
Name two aspects of a line of best fit .
What is 1 straight line
What is connects to axis
What is equal data points on each side of line
What is equal distance from line
What is dot with circle around it?
A student wants to see in what water temperature coral grows best. After 10 days she checks the growth of the 4 coral polyps in 20, 40, 60, and 80 degree water. Identify the sample size.
What is four?
After completing your research, the next step in the scientific method is to
What is Form a hypothesis?
A _____ graph is used to display data that is not continuous or without units.
What is Bar?
If the number of animals/organisms alive on a graph only appear in the water based and land based area, give three examples of what animal it could be.
What is a hippopotamus ?
What is a crab ?
What is a turtle ?
Answers may vary
Name a tool that can be used to measure the mass of an object.
What is a triple beam balance
A student wants to determine in what water temperature coral grows best. After 10 days she checks the growth of the 4 coral polyps in 20, 40, 60, and 80 degree water. Identify the independent variable .
What is the temperature ?
The results show the numbers 3 , 7, 4, and 22. What does 22 represent if it doesn't fit the rest of the data?
What is an Anomaly ?
three factors you include when describing the changes of a graph
what is increase or decrease , quantitative data, and overall trend ?
The conclusion drawn by data which shows that as temperature increases the amount of fish alive decreases
What is the fact that fish are not adapted to high temperatures?
Two key differences in a field experiment and a laboratory experiment
What is lab experiment takes place in a controlled environment and gives the researcher greater control over variables What is field experiment happens in the natural world and is exposed to extraneous variables Answers may vary.
A student wants to determine in what water temperate coral grows best. After 10 days she checks the growth of the 4 coral polyps in 20, 40, 60, and 80 degree water. Name two factors which should be controlled.
What is light intensity and amount of water?
When you submit evidence that a hypothesis is not supported, you ____ it.
What is refute ?
process to find the scale of the x-axis
What is # of units on x-axis / group number ?
Based off a data table that shows that coral only grows in between temperatures of 60-80 degrees , describe how a graph ranging from 0 to 100 degrees on coral growth would look.
What is remain at the bottom until it hits 60 where it will continue to increase until it hits 80 where it will start to decline .
What is a Hill?
BONUS QUESTION :Name three factors that can increase the validity of an experiment.
What is Adding a placebo group
What is only allowing for one variable to be manipulated at a time
What is increasing randomization of sample technique