Variables Com 3

The information you collect while doing your experiment is called

• conclusions

• data

• hypotheses

• procedures

How many independent variables should you have in an experiment?

• two

• as many as possible

• four

• one

What is an independent variable?

• What a scientist changes in an experiment to test their hypothesis

• What scientist measure to see if it responded to a change

• What happens when you do an experiment

• What you keep the same throughout all experimental groups

What is an dependent variable?

• What a scientist changes in an experiment to test their hypothesis

• What scientist measure to see if it responded to a change

• What happens when you do an experiment

• What you keep the same throughout all experimental groups

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

A testable explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested. 

• data
• theory
• hypothesis
• fact

Testing a hypothesis often involves a(n):

• answer
• experiment
• problem
• safety check

The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results. 

• conclusion
• procedures
• materials
• responding variable

An explanation based on many repeated observations during experiments.

• conclusion

• scientific law

• theory

• hypothesis

A general statement that describes a patterns that are often observed in nature.

• logical law

• civil law

• moral law

• scientific law