Experimental Design

What is a factor that is measured for change in an experiment?

• control
• constant
• independent variable
• dependent variable

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What part of an experiment contains the data tables and graphs?

• Results
• Conclusion
• Hypothesis
• Materials

What is the factor that an experimenter changes on purpose?

• Dependent Variable
• Independent Variable
• Constant
• Control

A summary of the experiment that includes whether hypothesis was right or wrong

• Hypothesis
• Results
• Conclusion
• Independent Variable

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

The part of the experiment that does not contain the independent variable. Used for comparison.

• Control Group
• Experimental Group
• Results
• Data

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What is the effect of salt water on the average of the height of the 3 tallest blades of grass?
What is the independent variable in the above question?

• salt water
• height
• average
• effect

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What is an if....then statement that predicts the outcome of an experiment or how the Independent variable effects the dependent variable?

• Conclusion
• Materials
• Hypothesis
• Problem

What is the part of the experiment that contains the independent variable?

• control group
• experimental group
• hypothesis
• dependent variable

What are the number of times each level of the independent variable is tested?

• constants
• control 
• repeated trials
• dependent variable

The type of variable that you change or manipulate in an experiment.  It is what you are testing.

• Independent
• Dependent
• Control