Variables
Graphing
Scientific Method
Vocabulary
100
Anything that changes in an experiment.
What is a VARIABLE?
100
This belongs on the top of every graph you make.
What is a TITLE?
100
This step answers the original question.
What is a conclusion?
100
An educated guess.
What is the hypothesis?
200
The variable that you make different in order to test it.
What is a INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
200
What is the name of the horizontal (side to side) axis?
What is X-AXIS?
200
An educated guess or prediction for what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
200
Examining something very carefully using your five senses in order to gain information.
What is an observation?
300
The variable that you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is a DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
300
True or False: You don't need to label the bottom and side of a graph.
What is False?
300
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is the ANALYSIS?
300
A group in an experiment in which the experimental trials are compared to.
What is a control group?
400
Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is a CONSTANT?
400
The independent variable goes on this axis.
What is the X-axis?
400
Numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.
What is DATA?
400
A graph that is useful for showing change over time.
What is a line graph?
500
The number of variables that you can change in an experimemt.
What is one?
500
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).
500
A list of things you do to perform the experiment(not Scientific Method)
What are PROCEDURES?
500
The variable that is changed during an experiment.
What is independent variable?
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