variables

What is the independent variable?

• Things you keep the same- they do not change

• What you observe or measure

• What you decide to change in an experiment

What is the dependent variable?

• Things you keep the same- they do not change

• What you observe or measure

• What you decide to change in an experiment

What is the control?

• Things you keep the same- used for comparison

• What you observe or measure

• What you decide to change in an experiment

The amount of water we would give to the flowers would be the _________________ variable.

How much the flowers grow would be the __________________ variable.

The type of flower, the amount of light and the type of soil are the ______________.

Good science only changes one independent variable at a time.

• true

• false