Biology Basics Review Game

A study was done to see the effect of eating differnt amounts of twinkies on energy levels in seniors. What's the IV?

What are constants in an experiment?

What type of graph should you use if you want to display percentages?

There's a study where plants are put in diff. solutions of H2O & nutrients. What's a plant that gets no nutrients called

1 group gets medicine in a tablet & another group gets an identical one w/ no medicine. What's the exprerimental group

This is the group used for comparison with your experimental groups

Scientists will test a relationship between a cause & an effect. The effect is which variable?

Which type of graph would you use if you're wanting to compare amounts?

Teachers studied how diff. types of music played during a 10th grade test affected the test scores. What's a constant?

How a hypothesis is tested

Which of the following is an example of a qualitative observation?

Describes qualities about an object or event

Students of different ages took the same math test. Researchers looked at the # of correct answers. What's the DV?

When leaving the movies a person notices that the sidewalk is wet. If the person assumed it rained, they're making an:

Which of the following is an example of a quantitative observation?

A student builds 4 birdhouses of different sizes to test if robins like big birdhouses to small ones. What's the IV?

Students measured a pencil & got 15.33 cm, 15.34 cm & 15.33 cm. The real length is 15.85 cm. Are the measurements...

In performing any laboratory experiment, what is the first step performed out of the following choices?

In a hypothesis the _______ variable is what is being tested, while the _______ variable is the one measured in response

Which graph would be best for wanting to see if there's a positive or negative correlation between 2 sets of data

Which type of graph would you use if you were wanting to show a change happening overtime?

This is an educated guess