| A | B |
|---|
| educated guess about what will happen in experiment | hypothesis |
| factors that affect experiment | variables |
| a collection of all techniques used to do an experiment | procedure |
| description of an experiment in which only one variable at a time is changed | controlled |
| Which unit is best used to measure the length of a swimming pool, meter or centimeter? | meter |
| Which unit is best used to measure the length of your hand, kilometer or centimeter? | centimeter |
| Which unit would be best to measure the distance from St. Louis to Kansas City, meter or kilometer? | kilometer |
| In an experiment, the question was, "How does adding salt affect the boiling point of water?" What would the control set-up look like in this experiment? | boiling water with no salt added |
| How many millimeters are there in six meters? | 6000 millimeters |
| What does the meter measure? | Distance |
| What does the Liter measure? | Volume |
| What does the gram measure? | Mass |
| A variable that stays the same throughout the experiment | control (constant) variable |
| the one variable that is tested (changed) in an experiment | independent variable |
| Put these in order from smallest to largest: kilometer, centimeter, hectometer, millimeter | millimeter, centimeter, hectometer, kilometer |
