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If you bought a painting for $250 and it was 20% off. How much money will you save?
$50.00
The plan you create for how you will conduct your experiment is called a design or investigation.
Design
A student wants to find out if music affects plant growth. They get two identical plants. Plant A is placed in a quiet room. Plant B is placed in a room where classical music plays for 6 hours a day. Both plants get the same amount of water and sunlight. After two weeks, the student measures the height of each plant.
What is the independent variable?
Music
Honey bees live in large colonies.
True or False
True
There is said to be around 100 or 400 million dogs in the world.
400 million
If you bought a bike for $500 and it was 40% off. How much money will you save?
$200.00
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A careful search or study to discover facts is called the purpose or investigation.
Investigation
A student wants to find out if music affects plant growth. They get two identical plants. Plant A is placed in a quiet room. Plant B is placed in a room where classical music plays for 6 hours a day. Both plants get the same amount of water and sunlight. After two weeks, the student measures the height of each plant.
What is the dependent variable?
The height of the plant after two weeks
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Drone bees are male or female.
male
Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated.
True or False
True
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If you bought a pair of shoes for $50 and it was 10% off. How much money will you save?
$5.00
The step-by-step instructions for how to do your experiment is the called the procedure or purpose.
Procedure
A student wants to find out if music affects plant growth. They get two identical plants. Plant A is placed in a quiet room. Plant B is placed in a room where classical music plays for 6 hours a day. Both plants get the same amount of water and sunlight. After two weeks, the student measures the height of each plant.
What is the controlled variables?
Same amount of water and sunlight
Can drone bees sting?
Yes or No
No; they cannot sting
Dogs were first domesticated 5,000 or 15,000 years ago.
15,000 years ago
If you bought a blanket for $75 and it was 20% off. How much money will you save?
$15.00
An educated guess about the answer to your question, written as an "if...then..." statement is called the hypothesis or purpose.
Hypothesis
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A student wants to find out which brand of paper towel is the most absorbent. They pour the same amount of water on three different brands. What is the one thing the student is changing on purpose to test their idea?
The student is changing the different brands of paper towel.
Worker bees or drone bees take care of the young and collect pollen and nectar.
Worker bees
Dogs are carnivores or omnivores.
Omnivores
If you bought a lamp for $50 and it was 40% off. How much money will you save and what is the final price (without tax)?
You would save $20.00 and the final cost without tax would be $30.00.
What you think will happen in the experiment based on your hypothesis is called a prediction or inquiry.
Prediction
You want to know if a tennis ball bounces higher on grass or on concrete. You drop the same ball from the same height onto each surface. What is the key thing you are changing in this test?
The surface that the ball drops onto
What two things do bees make honey with?
(hint one word starts with P and other starts with N)
Nectar and Pollen
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Dogs can hear at 2 or 4 times the distance of humans.
4 times