How do you measure up?
This is the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
This is a process that scientists use to answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
This is a factor affecting how a system works.
What is a variable?
This is the system of units used in science.
What is the metric system (or SI system)?
This kind of graph is used to represent part of a whole.
What is a pie graph?
The amount of space something takes up is this.
What is volume?
This is a possible answer to a question that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
The variable you change in an experiment is called this.
What is the experimental variable (or independent variable)?
This is the metric temperature scale.
What is Celsius?
This graph is used when one variable causes another variable to change.
What is a line graph?
How much surface something has is this.
What is area?
This is a controlled test of a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
Each time you perform an experiment, it is called this.
What is a trial?
This is the number of grams in 1 kilogram.
What is 1000?
The independent variable is the one you change yourself and it is on this axis.
What is the x-axis?
This is a measure of the amount of solute dissolved in a solution.
What is concentration?
What is a graph?
The variables that are kept constant in an experiment are called this.
What are control variables?
If the concentration of salt water is 35 ppt, this is the amount of salt in 1 liter of water.
What is 35 grams?
This variable is the one you measure, and it is always on the y-axis.
What is the dependent variable?
This is the curved surface of water in a graduated cylinder.
What is a meniscus?
This is an explanation of an event that has been tested many times.
What is a theory?
This is the number of variables you can change at a time in an experiment.
What is one?
This is the volume of a rectangular prism with dimensions 1 cm x 2 cm x 3 cm.
What is 6 cubic centimeters?
These TWO names both refer to the variable you change that is on the x-axis.
What is the experimental and independent variable?