Vocab
Variables
Graphing
Word Problems
Data tables
100
What is a Prediction?
What is forecasting the future?
100
Fill in the blanks:
_____ causes the _______
Independent variable causes the dependent variable.
100
What axes do the dependent and independent variables go on?
x axis: IV
y axis: DV
100
What is the IV and DV of the following sentence?
Ms. Wotton drinks coffee everyday because it allows her to function.
IV: drinking coffee
DV: functioning
100
What type of graph would you make with this data?
What is a line graph?
200
What is an Observation?
What is using your 5 senses to gather knowledge about the world.
200
What is an Independent variable?
What is the thing being changed?
200
What is missing from this graph? (hint: there is more than 1)
What is the x and y axes labeled, and a Title?
200
Researchers want to know whether eating a healthy diet will improve memory?
What is the IV and DV?
IV: diet
DV: improving memory
300
What is an Inference?
What is making an educated guess based on an observation?
300
What is a Dependent varaible?
What is the thing that is being measured?
300
What type of graph is this? And when do you use this type of graph? (must answer both correctly)
What is a line graph?
What is when you are showing changes overtime?
300
A cow is given a growth hormone and then compared to another cow that was not given a growth hormone. Both cows were weighed at 2 years old.
What is the IV/ DV and 2 controls?
IV: growth hormone
DV: weight
Controls: answers will vary
400
What does Qualitative mean? and give 3 examples.
What is the quality of something?
Examples: answers will vary
400
What is a control?
What is something that remains the same/ doesn't change in an experiment?
400
What type of graph is this? And when do you use a bar graph? (must answer both correctly for points)
What is a bar graph?
What is to compare things between different groups/ track changes overtime?
400
Mosquito repellent is sprayed on one arm and the other arm is not sprayed. The number of mosquito bites is counted after 2 hours.
What is the IV/ DV and 2 controls?
IV: mosquito repellent
DV: bites
Controls: answers will vary.
500
What does Quantitative mean? and give 3 examples.
What is measuring the quantity of something?
Example: Answers will vary.
500
After dealing with a group of bounty hunters, Grand Moff Tarkin notices that some of the meeting rooms in the Death Star smell horrible. His head scientists tell him that the gas from planet Yavin will get rid of the smell. Tarkin decides to test this out by spraying half of the meeting rooms with Yavin gas. He sprays the other half of the room with water. After 3 days of treatment there is no change in the smell of the rooms.
What are the independent/ dependent and a control for this experiment?
IV:
DV:
Controls:
500
What type of graph would you make with this data?
What is a triple bar graph?