Measurements
This piece of equipment is used to find the volume of a liquid.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This is a unit of mass.
What is a gram/kilogram?
This is a possible answer to a question that can be tested with an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
This is a factor that affects how your system works.
What is a variable?
This graph is used to show parts of a whole.
What is a pie chart?
This is the amount of matter an object has.
What is mass?
This is the amount of space something occupies and is measured in milliliters or cubic centimeters.
What is volume?
This is the first step to the scientific method.
What is "Making an Observation"?
This is the variable you are testing in the experiment, and this is the variable you change.
What is an experimental variable?
This type of graph is used when one variable causes another variable to increase or decrease.
What is a line graph?
This is the bottom of the curve water makes when poured in a graduated cylinder. It is also where you measure volume.
What is a meniscus?
This is the temperature scale used in science.
What is Celsius?
This is a controlled test of a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
These are variables you are not testing, and they should not change.
What are control variables?
This type of relationship occurs when one variable increases and causes another variable to also increase.
This is a measurement of the amount of solute in a solution.
What is concentration?
This is a unit of area.
What is a square centimeter/meter?
This is what you should do if the experiment refutes your hypothesis.
What is "adjusting your hypothesis and testing again"?
This is a group of factors you are studying that are related in some way.
What is a system?
This variable is controlled by the experimenter and goes on the horizontal axis.
What is the independent variable?
This is the number of grams of salt in 2 liters of a 30 ppt solution of saltwater.
What is 60?
This is a unit of concentration for a solution.
What is parts per thousand?
This is an explanation of a group of observations that has been thoroughly tested.
What is a theory?
This is what you call each individual time you perform an experiment.
What is a trial?
This variable is the one measured in an experiment and goes on the vertical axis.
What is the dependent variable?