1.5 Study Guide

Question 1

What is a dependent variable?

Answer 1

.The variable that is measured.

Question 2

What is an independent variable?

Answer 2

The variable that gets changed.

Question 3

What is the control group?

Answer 3

A group with no independent variable.

Question 4

What axis does each variable go on?

Answer 4

y is dependent and x is independent.

Question 5

Identify the variables in this hypothesis. If you stay up late, then you feel tired the next day.

Answer 5

If you stay up is the independent variable. Feeling tired is the dependent variable.

Question 6

A group with controlled, dependent, and independent variable

Answer 6

An expeiremental group.

Question 7

Why do you want only one independent variable?

Answer 7

So you know what effected the change.

Question 8

Write a basic if ___, then ____, because _____ hypothesis.

Answer 8

If I increase the amount of fertilizer on grass plants, then the grass plants will grow taller, because the fertilizer will provide more nutrients that plants need to grow.