Marine Science unit 1

Who created the scuba tank?

• Columbus

• Jacques Cousteau

• Matthew Laury

• James Cook

If an animal shelter wants to see if a certain dog food causes a dog to gain weight, which of the following would NOT be a constant?

• Type of dog food given

• Amount of dog good given

• Time of day food is given

• Amount of exercise dog is given

Which of the following is not an example of quantitative data?

• Temperature

• Speed

• Height

• Texture

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What is the DEPENDENT variable (effect) in this experiment?

"Does eating breakfast improve test scores?"

• eating breakfast or not

• the grade you got on the test

• what time you get up in the morning

• how tasty the breakfast is

You are testing how the amount you water a plant affects its growth. What would be the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE in this experiment.

• They type of pot you put the plants in.

• The amount you water each plant.

• The amount of sunlight the plants get.

• The amount the plant grows.

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A _ is a standard used for comparison; it is kept in "normal" conditions.

• hypothesis

• control group

• dependent variable

• control variables

Identify the dependent variable according to this graph.

• Seed Type

• Number of Bird Species

• Sunflower and Sorghum

• Sunflower

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This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the Earth

• James Cook

• Columbus

• Phoenicians

• Magellan

This tool is used to measure the clarity of the water

• secchi disk

• drift bottle

• seine

• trawl

Sailed the Mediterranean using the stars

• Vikings

• Phoenicians

• HMS Challenger

• Magellan

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