Types of Graphs
This is a graph that uses percentages to display data in slices.
What is a pie chart?
Science is gathering this...
What is knowledge?
It is important to do this to each axis to show what variable is being graphed.
What is a label?
When creating a bar graph you may need to display each piece of data with different colors. Where do you tell the reader what each color represents?
What is a key?
The axis where my independent variable will go on a graph.
What is x-axis or horizontal axis?
Save Fred was an example that there is no one set of _____ in science.
What are methods?
A graph that relates the amount of fertilizer to how tall a plant grows in centimeters. _______ is the independent variable.
Amount of fertilizer
The axis where my dependent variable will go on a graph.
What is the y-axis or vertical axis?
Scientists can use data to make these or conclusions with evidence.
What are inferences?
What is a constant?
A variable that needs to be kept the same for all trials of an experiment.
These are at least three types of graphs we can use to display data.
What is a line graph, a bar graph, a pie chart?
When designing an experiment it is important to keep these variables the same throughout.
What are constants?
The word for the fact that science can change as we get new data.
What is tentative?
A graph that relates the amount of fertilizer to how tall a plant grows in centimeters. Name three constants.
Type of plant, type of soil, type of fertilizer, container plant is grown, amount of sunlight, amount of water.