Variables
Experiments
Vocabulary
Swingers
Lifeboats
100
What is a variable we tested in the lifeboat experiment
What is boat size
100
We worked with what_________ first experiment ?
What is swingers or pendulums
100
What is capacity?
What is the greatest amount of fluid a container can hold
100
What is one variable of the pendulum experiment that did not have an impact of the number of swings?
What is mass
100
What variable did we control during the lifeboat experiment?
What is how we placed the passenger.
200
What is a variable we tested in the pendulum experiment?
What is length of string
200
We worked with ____________ the second experiment?
What is lifeboats
200
What is a standard experiment
What is the basic procedure before changing any of the varibales
200
What was the independent variable during the pendulum experiment? What information did we know? The X-axis
What was length of string
200
How did we measure lifeboat size?
What is capacity
300
What is the variable we controlled in the life boat experiment?
What is how we placed the passengers
300
What did variable did we test in the swinger experiment?
What is a release position
300
What is a controlled experiment?
What is variable is changed in order to assess its affect.
300
What is the dependent variable of the pendulum experiment? The y-axis What information we did not know?
What is number of swings
300
What variable did we know before the experiment the x-axis
What is the capacity of the boat
400
What is a variable we tested in the swinger experiment?
What is the release positon
400
What variable did we test in the lifeboat experiment?
What is boat size
400
What is a pendulum and variables that affect it?
What is a mass hanging from a fixed swing that might be affected by mass, length, and starting position
400
What was did we find out after testing the variable length of string?
What is the length of pendulum increases, the number of swings decreases
400
What is the dependent variable y-axis the information we did not know before the experiment?
What is the number of passengers lifeboat will hold?
500
What is a variable?
What is anything that you can change in an experiment that might affect the outcome
500
What is a controlled experiment?
Only one variable is changed in order to assess its effect.
500
What is a two-coordinate graph?
What is a graph that displays the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
500
What variables had no impact of the pendulum?
What is mass, and release position
500
What is the relationship between life boat size and number of passengers?
What is the bigger the life boat the more passengers it can hold.
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