Vivacious Variables
Scientific Steps
Great Graphs
Microscope Madness
100

The type of variable that is measured

What is the dependent variable?

100

The first step of scientific method

What is an observation?

100

The variable that goes on the X-axis of a graph

What is the independent variable?
100

The clarity of an image

What is resolution?

200

The type of vairable that is controlled or manipulated

What is the independent variable

200

This step of scientific method involves making a prediction.

What is hypothesizing?

200

A variable that is not documented on a graph

What is a control variable?

200

The amount that the apparent size of an object is increased.

What is magnification?
300

Sally conducted an experiment where she tested how much juice her little brother drank per day depending on the weather for that day.  She made apple juice available to her brother each day but made sure no other kinds of juices were available to him. 

In this example, ________is the control variable

What is the apple juice?

300

These 3 things are needed in order to observe the relationship in question for an experiment.  

Control, Independent, and Dependent Variables

300

The graphical relationship where as x increases, y decreases

What is an inverse/indirect relationship?

300
A microscope that can create 3D images

What is the SEM?

400

Sally conducted an experiment where she tested how much juice her little brother drank per day depending on the weather for that day.  She made apple juice available to her brother each day but made sure no other kinds of juices were available to him.

The dependent variable in Sally's experiment was ______

What is the amount of apple juice the little brother drank in a day?

400

This step involves documenting information and publishing it.

What is sharing/communicating findings?

400

The type of relationship where as x increases y increases dramatically, but then after a little while the effect levels off and increasing x no longer impacts y.

What is a logarithmic relationship?

400

What is the drawing magnification of a drawing if the specimen is 2mm in real life but the drawing is 200mm?

100X
500

Frank decided to find out if a cat crossing his path was actually bad luck.

He recorded the number of times a black crossed his path/month and then counted the number of times something bad happened to him in the same month.

He took data for August, September, October, and November.

What is the problem with Frank's "experiment" in terms of variables.

He is measuring both variables, so he cannot find causation only correlation.  He doesn't control any of them.

500
This often results after the conclusion has been written.

What is new observations/questions?

500

When we use a best fit line to determine the relationship between variables and use this to estimate data points that were not directly measured.

What is extrapolation?

500

If my FOV(low) is 4mm.

And my total magnifications are low: 40X med: 100X and high: 400X

What is the FOV(high)?

FOV(High) = 0.4mm
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