Experimental Design
An if/then statement that you test during an experiment
What is a hypothesis?
The air surrounding the earth
What is the atmosphere?
Graph showing parts of a whole. Percentages.
What is a pie chart?
What is evaporation?
What is the best choice of graph to display the different ages of students in our class?
What is a pie chart?
The group/test that is NOT experimented on.
What is the control?
All of the liquid water on earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
Graph that compares group or categories.
What is a bar graph?
Water moving from the atmosphere to an other sphere.
What is precipitation?
What kind of graph would I use to graph how differences in temperature affect humidity levels in NYC?
What is a scatter plot?
The thing in an experiment that is DIFFERENT in all the groups.
The independent variable.
The rocks and minerals that make up the earth.
What is the lithosphere?
Graph that tracks change over time.
Line graph.
Water moving from plants into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration.
When designing an experiment, I have to measure the ____________ at the end.
Dependent variable
The thing in an experiment that is measured in the end.
What is the dependent variable?
All living things on earth.
Biosphere.
Graph that shows the relationship between two variables.
Scatter plot.
Water moving into the lithosphere.
What is infiltration?
How would you graph average amount of precipitation per month in NYC?
What is a line graph?
The name of the information we collect in experiments.
What is data?
Cycle where water moves between the atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere.
What is the water cycle?
The value at the point where the X and Y axis meet.
What is 0.
Water vapor (gas) in the atmosphere turning back into liquid, but remaining in the atmosphere.
What is Condensation.
The process where parts of the lithosphere are worn away by the hydrosphere.
What is erosion.