living environment

Independent variable

• What you measure in an experiment.

• What you can control in an experiment. Adding or taking away

• How many tests you run

• The group that does not receive treatment

Dependent variable

• What you can add or take away from an experiment.

• What you are measuring in an experiment.

  Data

• These stayed the same during the experiment. Testing location, time, etc.

• a tested and proven experiment.

Constant

• Everything that was different about the experiment.

• Things that stayed the same.

• What you measured.

• What you are controlling.

What is a hyposthesis?

• a testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables or a proposed explanation for some observed phenomenon.

• A question

• The control group

• What you can control in an experiment.

Control group

• What I use when making my observation

• What is being measured

• The steps in which we conduct experiments

• Received no treatment

A bar graph shows a (a)   between things measured

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Trials

• multiple tests of an experiment

• A proven theory

• reviewed by colleagues, coworkers, peers,

• Your personal opinion about the experiment.

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In a graph, where would you plot the independent variables

• Y axis

• on the graph

• x axis

• in the middle of the graph

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A line graph shows a (a)   in an experiment

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In an experiment, where would you label the dependent variable

• y axis

• x axis

• The top of the graph

• Bottom of paper

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