It is called an independent variable. For example, you give some people Dark Chocolate and other no chocolate at all. You measure their well being. The amount of chocolate is something YOU control, so it is the independent variable. The well being depends on the chocolate. We would expect more dark chocolate would make much happier people. That would be the dependent variable.
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The controlled variable is the one that you chose to change while the dependant is the variable that changes because it is effected by the controlled variable
a control variable is a variable that needs to be controlled
The dependent variable does.
A variable is something that can stand as a subsitute for something. And a controlled variable is somthing controllable.
controlled variable