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 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?
True or False: You don't need to label the bottom and side of a graph.
What is False?
The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.
What is the DATA ANALYSIS?
This is how mass and weight are different.
What is MASS IS THE AMOUNT OF MATTER IN AN OBJECT AND WEIGHT IS THE FORCE OF GRAVITY ACTING ON THE OBJECT?
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 OR CONTROL VARIABLE?
Use a bar graph when you have this type of data.
What is CATEGORIES?
In an observation, you collect information using this.
What is YOUR SENSES.
A measure of how much 3D space an object takes up.
What is volume?
The tool used for determining the weight of an object.
What is a SPRING SCALE?
The number of variables that you can change in an experimemt.
What is one?
What is a LINE GRAPH?
You should do this before making a hypothesis?
What is RESEARCH and/or MAKE ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS?
The number of meters in one kilometer.
What is 1,000?
A good tool to use to measure the volume of a box-shaped solid object.
What is a metric ruler?