Variables
Anything that changes in an experiment.
What is a VARIABLE?
This belongs on the top of every graph you make.
What is a TITLE?
This step answers the original question.
What is a CONCLUSION?
This is the basic unit for length in the metric system.
What is the meter?
The tool used to measure the length of an object.
What is a metric ruler or meterstick?
The variable that you make different in order to test it.
What is a INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
What is the name of the horizontal (side to side) axis?
What is X-AXIS?
An testable explanation/prediction for what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
This is the basic unit for volume.
What is the liter?
The tool best used to measure the volume of a liquid.
What is A GRADUATED CYLINDER?
The variable that you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is a DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
This type of graph is best used to analyze progressions, such as change over time.
What is a LINE GRAPH?
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is the ANALYSIS?
This formula can be used to measure the volume of a regular shaped, 3D object with straight sides, like a rectangular box or cube
What is Length x Width x Height?
A tool best used to measure the mass of an object.
What is a TRIPLE BEAM BALANCE?
Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is a CONSTANT?
Ms. O is testing how different temperatures affect bacterial growth. She keeps all cultures in the same size petri dishes with equal amounts of light reaching the samples. This is the dependent variable.
What is number of bacteria?
Numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.
What is DATA?
A measure of how much 3D space an object takes up.
What is volume?
This is what it is called when you change from a base unit to another unit of measurement (example: meter to centimeter).
What is a CONVERSION?
The number of variables that you can change in an experimemt.
What is one?
If you have a data table with two columns, the left column always goes on this axis of the graph.
What is the X-AXIS (Bottom of graph).
A list of things you do to perform the experiment (not Scientific Method)
What are PROCEDURES?
This is calculated using the formula: ? = mass (g)/volume (mL)
What is DENSITY?
A good tool to use to measure the volume of a box-shaped solid object.
What is a metric ruler?