| A | B |
|---|
| variable | anything that you change in an experiment to affect the outcome |
| inquiry | investigation (to ask questions) |
| controlled experiment | only one variable is changed at a time in an experiment |
| hypothesis | an educated guess (an answer to the problem) |
| independent variable | what do I know before the experiment |
| dependent variable | what do I know after the experiment |
| standard (control) | the basic procedures before we change any variables; what you compare to |
| x-axis | the bottom of a graph; horizontal line; independent variable |
| y-axis | vertical line; dependent variable |
