Vary Cool
The one thing the scientist purposely changes in an experiment.
What is Independent Variable?
Another name for Problem.
What is Question?
Another term for information.
What is data?
Another name for prediction.
What is Hypothesis?
The number of independent variables you should have in an experiment.
What is one?
Everything that must remain the same to have a fair test.
What are Controlled Variables?
A well written scientific problem must be specific and _______.
What is testable(measurable)?
What we use to organize our data before graphing it.
What is a table(chart)?
The format we use to write our hypothesis statements.
What is If....then...
Type of graph that is used to show change over time.
What is a line graph?
The variable we measure.
What is Dependent Variable?
Good or Not So Good?
Which brand of shoe is the best?
What is Not So Good?
The vertical axis on a graph.
What is the Y axis?
A guess where you use what you know.
What is an educated guess?
Increase and decrease are commonly used during this step of the scientific method.
What is Hypothesis?
The variable found on the X axis.
What is the Independent Variable?
Good or Not So Good?
How does the amount of water affect the growth rate of a plant?
What is Good?
The computer program we used to create our bar graphs.
What is Google Sheets?
The independent variable in the following:
If the wind speed increases, then the speed of the sailboat will increase.
What is the wind speed?
Another name for "dots" on a line graph.
What are "points"?
The variable found on the Y axis.
What is the Dependent Variable?
The Dependent Variable in the following problem:
How does the amount of salt affect how fast water will freeze?
What is, how fast the water will freeze?
Word meaning to look over, study, and figure out what the data means.
What is analyze?
If you decrease the amount sunlight, then the growth rate of the plant will decrease.
What is the growth rate of the plant?
The Independent Variable in our Alka Seltzer experiment.
What is the number of tablets?