NOS Quiz

What is an INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?

• The thing we do not change

• The one thing we change

• The thing we measure

• The thing we keep constant

How many millimeters of rain fell on the 6th day?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

What is the Dependent Variable?

• The thing we do not change

• The one thing we change

• The thing we measure?

• The thing we keep constant

What question could this graph be answering?

• What time of the day does the store make the most money?

• What time of the day are there the most people inside the store?

• What is the best time of the day to go to the store?

• What time does the store open?

Which type of graph is the best to use if you are showing how something changed over time?

• Line

• Bar

• Pie

• Cake

In an experiment concerning the growth of mice in a scientific lab, scientists have four groups of mice. Each group of mice get different amounts of the same specialized mouse diet. The mice are weighed daily, and the results are recorded. Which is the dependent variable in this experiment?

• the type of mouse diet

• the amount of food the mice get each day

• the weight of the mice

• the housing of the mice.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

London is experimenting with different fertilizers. He plants five fields of wheat and applies different fertilizers to each field. At the end of the planting season, he harvests the fields and counts the bushels of wheat that each field produced. What is the independent variable in this experiment?

• the type of fertilizer used

• the wheat

• the bushels of wheat that are counted

• the amount of sunlight

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

the process of using one or more of your senses to gather information

• science

• inferring

• skepticism

• observation

the process of making an inference, an interpretation based on observations and prior knowledge

• science

• inferring

• skepticism

• observing

an observation that deals with a number or amount

• qualitative observation

• quantitative observation

• skepticism

• inferring