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Variables
Graphing
Scientific Method
Measurements
Tools
100
Anything that changes in an experiment.
What is a VARIABLE?
100
This belongs on the top of every graph you make.
What is a TITLE?
100
This is what you begin with.
What is a QUESTION or PROBLEM?
100
This is the basic unit for length in the metric system.
What is the meter?
100
The tool used to measure the length of an object.
What is a metric ruler or meterstick?
200
The variable that you make different in order to test it.
What is an independent VARIABLE?
200
What is the name of the horizontal (side to side) axis?
What is X-AXIS?
200
An educated guess or prediction for what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
200
This is the basic unit for volume.
What is the liter?
200
The tool best used to measure the volume of a liquid.
What is A GRADUATED CYLINDER?
300
The variable that you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is a DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
300
True or False: You don't need to label the bottom and side of a graph.
What is False?
300
What you must do before you develop your hypothesis.
What is RESEARCH?
300
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?
300
A tool best used to measure the mass of an object.
What is a TRIPLE BEAM BALANCE?
400
This is not exposed to the experimental variable.
What is a CONTROL?
400
The axis where you graph your dependent variable.
What is the Y-axis?
400
Numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.
What is DATA?
400
A measure of how much 3D space an object takes up.
What is volume?
400
Seconds, minutes, hours, etc. would be units of this.
What is TIME?
500
The number of independent variables that you can have in an experiment.
What is ONE?
500
If time is one of your variables, it is always placed on this axis.
What is the X-AXIS (Bottom of graph).
500
If many different experiments lead to the same conclusion, then this broad unifying idea may be developed.
What is a THEORY?
500
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
500
A tool to observe objects that are too small to see with the naked eye.
What is a microscope?