Variables
This is the number of changes you should make in an experiment.
What is ONE?
This step answers the original question.
What is a conclusion?
This is the basic unit for length in the metric system.
What is the meter?
The tool used to measure the length of an object.
What is a metric ruler or meterstick?
The word for something that is changed in an experiment.
What is a VARIABLE?
Which of the variables goes on the X-AXIS (the horizontal) axis?
What is the independent variable?
A probable prediction or explanation for what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
This is the basic unit for volume.
What is the liter?
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 a DEPENDENT/ RESPONDING VARIABLE?
This type of chart/graph is best for showing percentages.
What is a pie chart/graph?
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is the ANALYSIS?
This formula can be used to measure the volume of a regular shaped, 3D object with straight sides, like a rectangular box or cube.
What is Length x Width x Height?
A tool we used to measure the mass of an object.
What is an electronic scale?
Something in the experiment that stays the same for comparison.
What is a CONTROL?
This type of graph is best used for seeing patterns or changes over a period of time.
What is a LINE GRAPH?
Numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.
What is DATA?
This is the direction and number of movements the decimal will move from meters to kilometers. (You have 10,000 m, how many kilometers?)
What is three spaces to the left? (10 km)
BONUS QUESTION if you get this correct, add 500 to your points.
What other metric measurements are equal to 1 mL?
What are 1g and 1 cm3?
This is the variable that the scientist changes.
What is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
This is the reason we create graphs and charts.
What is making the data more understandable.
The reason you would do research before starting your experiment.
What is to save money, time, and possible embarrassment?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
A good tool to use to measure the volume of a box-shaped solid object.
What is a metric ruler?