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Information gathered in the experiment.
What is data?
This is used to answer questions about the world.
What is the scientific method?
The first step of the Scientific Method.
What is choose a problem?
The last step of the Scientific Method.
What is draw conclusions?
An educated guess based on observation.
What is a hypothesis?
The sixth step of the Scientific Method.
What is organize your data?
A hypothesis is stated in the "____, _____..." format.
What is "IF" "THEN..." format?
A variable that cannot be changed.
The second step of the Scientific Method.
What is research your problem?
Something that is changed by the scientist in the experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The third step of the Scientific Method.
What is develop a hypothesis?
This axis on a graph will always have the time period.
What is the x-axis (horizontal)?
The fourth step of the Scientific Method.
What is design an experiment?
The fifth step of the Scientific Method.
What is test your hypothesis?
During this stage the scientist recommends further study for the future.
What is the conclusion?
Something that is affected by the change in the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
Identify the independent variable: In an experiment, cows were given different types of feed to determine which feed helped them gain the most weight.
What are the different types of feed?
A gardener tests how fast tomato plants grow in response to different levels of sunlight. He waters the plants with the same amount of water every day. The constant in the experiment is the _______.
What is water?
Identify the dependent variable: In an experiment, cows were given different types of feed to determine which feed helped them gain the most weight.
What is the weight gained by the cows?
This type of graph is used to compare different items, e.g. favorite ice cream flavors in a class of students.
What is a bar graph?