1.3 study guide Flashcards
What is a dependent variable?
What you are measuring and what is affected during the expirment.
What is the first step in writing a hypothesis?
Come up with a specific reason that explains the phenomena.
What’s the second step in writing a hypothesis?
Writing a testable statement.
What’s an independent variable?
a variable that stands alone and isn’t changed by the other variables you are trying to measure
What are error bars?
How significantly different things are from eachother.
What Is a control group?
A standard to which comparisons are made in an experiment.
What do error bars show us?
How much overlap there is if there’s any.
What would a good control group look like?
1 control group and 1 or multiple experimental groups.
How should control groups differ?
By 1 variable
What unit is always an independent variable?
Time/age
