Scientific Method - Steps
This is an educated guess about the answer to your question.
What is a hypothesis?
A student wants to test how temperature affects how quickly ice melts. What could the independent variable be?
What is temperature?
The variable you change on purpose is called this.
What is the independent variable?
This is the step where you test your hypothesis.
What is the experiment?
A scientist tests how the amount of fertilizer affects tomato plants. What would the dependent variable be?
What is the size or health of the tomato plants?
The variable you measure or observe is called this.
What is the dependent variable?
True of False: If your hypothesis is wrong, your experiment was a failure.
What is false?
You want to know if plants grow faster with music. Name one variable you would need to measure.
What is plant growth (height, size, number of leaves)
A student tests how the type of soil affects plant growth. What is the independent variable?
What is the type of soil?
In this step, you decide if your hypothesis was correct.
What is the conclusion?
The acronym to remember the dependent variable.
What is DRY and it stands for dependent, responding, and y-axis?
If you are testing the effect of sunlight on plants, the amount of sunlight is tis variable.
What is the independent variable?
What are the steps of scientific method?
Observation, problem/question, hypothesis, experiment, results, and conclusion.
The acronym for the independent variable.
What is MIX, which stands for manipulated, independent, and x-axis?
If you are testing the effect of sunlight on plants, the height of the plant is this variable.
What is the dependent variable?