Experimental Design - Shalafi CJR

Jeff is 6 feet 2 inches is a ___________ assesment

• Qualitative
• Quantitative

The cake has a sweet smell is a _______ assessment. 

• Qualitative
• Quantitative

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

• Independent
• Dependent
• Control

The type of variable that responds to the experiment and is what you measure to determine if your hypothesis is true.

• Independent
• Dependent
• Control

The parts of the experiment that must be kept the same.

• Constants
• independent
• Dependent

If I water the plant more often, then it will grow taller.  Name the independent variable.

• The height of the plant
• The size of the pot
• The amount of water
• The amount of light.

If I water the plant more often, then it will grow taller.  Name the dependent variable.

• The amount of water.
• The amount of soil.
• The height of the plant.
• The amount of water.

Which of these is not an observation.

• There are footprints.
• The person was dizzy.
• The footprints are black.
• There are dots.

When you make a prediction based upon your observations, it is called a/an _____________.

• Inference
• Observation
• Control group
• Guess

Maya designed an experiment to answer the following question: How does the amount of water given to a lima

bean seed affect how tall it grows?

Multiple answer!!!! Which things does Maya need to keep the same in her experiment?

• the amount of water each plant gets

• the amount of soil

• the type of plant

• the amount of sunlight each plant gets