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 an independent variable?
What is the name of the horizontal (side to side) axis?
What is X-AXIS?
An educated guess or 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?
The two things you need to include when labeling the axes of a graph.
What are units and what you are measuring?
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is when you analyze the data?
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?
Which variable is put on the x-axis?
What is the independent variable?
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?
The process using a graduated cylinder to find the volume of an object.
What is water diaplacement?
The number of variables that you can change in an experiment.
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?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
A good tool to use to measure the volume of a box-shaped solid object.
What is a metric ruler?