NATURE OF SCIENCE: Understanding Lab Reports

A good research question asks how changing the independent variable will affect the dependent variable.

• true

• false

When writing the background information for your lab report, you should include

• information in your class notebooks

• research from the internet

• research using an AI bot

• all of these options

A research question should always contain

• your independent variable

• your dependent variable

• something about the activity

• all of these options

The variable that is about what you are choosing to change in your activity is called

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• control variable

• fair test variable

The variable that is about what you are choosing to measure in your activity is called

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• control variable

• fair test variable

The variable that is about what you are keeping exactly the same throughout your activity is called

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• control variable

• fair test variable

When writing about your independent variable, which of the following MUST YOU INCLUDE?

A: the name of the variable

B: details about how you will change it

C: details on how you will measure it

D: the units

E: how you will measure it

• C: details on how you will measure it
• E: how you will measure it
• F: the color of the variable
• A: the name of the variable, B: details about how you will change it, D: the units

When writing about your dependent variable in your report, which of the following MUST YOU INCLUDE?

A: the name of the variable

B: details about how you will change it

C: details on how you will measure it

D: the units

E: how do you measure it

• B: details about how you will change it

• E: how you will measure it
• F: the color of the variable
• A: the name of the variable, C: details on how you will measure it, D: the units

A hypothesis must include

• how increasing your independent variable causes you dependent variable to change

• how increasing your dependent variable causes you independent variable to change

• how keeping your control variable constant causes your dependent variable to change

• how keeping your control variable constant causes your independent variable to change

The variable the is changed on purpose is called ..

• Constant

• Control

• Independent (or Input) Variable

• Dependent (or output) Variable