Variables
The dependent variable is what you...
What is MEASURE?
This belongs on the top of every graph you make.
What is a TITLE?
This step answers the original question.
What is a conclusion?
If you give a plant 50% sugar water then it will grow taller then if it is given 25% sugar water.
What is the dependent variable?
Height of Plant
The tool used to measure the length of an object.
What is a metric ruler or meterstick?
The variable that you make different in order to test it.
What is the independent variable?
What variable goes on the X-Axis?
What is the independent variable?
An educated guess or prediction for what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
If you give a plant 50% sugar water then it will grow taller then if it is given 25% sugar water.
What is the independent variable?
Amount of sugar
The tool best used to measure the volume of a liquid.
What is A GRADUATED CYLINDER?
The variable that you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
True or False: You don't need to label the bottom and side of a graph.
What is False?
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is the ANALYSIS?
If you give a plant 50% sugar water then it will grow taller then if it is given 25% sugar water.
What are two constants?
Type of plant, amount of water, amount of soil, amount of light.
A tool best used to measure the mass of an object.
What is a TRIPLE BEAM BALANCE?
Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is a CONSTANT or CONTROLLED VARIABLE?
4,5,6,5
What is 5?
Numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.
What is DATA?
If you give a plant 50% sugar water then it will grow taller then if it is given 25% sugar water.
What is the control group?
Regular Water, no sugar
What is used to make a small object appear larger?
Microscope.
The number of variables that you can change in an experimemt.
What is one?
If you have a data table with two columns, the left column always goes on this axis of the graph.
What is the X-AXIS (Bottom of graph).
Which is more valuable to scientists observations or opinions?
What are observations?
If you give a plant 50% sugar water then it will grow taller then if it is given 25% sugar water.
What is a way to improve this experiment.
Use more plants
What is used to move a small amount of a liquid from one place container to another?
What is a pipette?