The variable that goes on the x axis is the independent variable. For example if you were measuring time and plant growth you would put time on the x axis, because the time is independent and doesn't depend on the plan growth.
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The independent variable (such as time) is places on the x-axis of a graph. Always place the things that will never change on the x-axis. The dependent variable is then placed on the y-axis. The difference between the independent and dependent variable is that the independent variable in an experient does not change it is what stays constent, it is what is used to measure the dependent variable. On the other hand the dependent variable is what the experiment is testing for and what depends on the independent variable.
a independent variable is a variable changed in a science experiment,and a dependent variable is the result according to the cause of the change in the independent variable.
The dependent variable depends on the independent variable for its values as for example in the straight line equation: y = 2x+1 It is y that is the dependent variable and x the independent variable.
If you measure the temperature every hour, then time is the independent variable (value), and temperature is the dependent variable (value).
Independent variable is time; dependent variable is temperature.
Whichever axis you like. To some extent it depends on whether temperature is the independent or the dependent variable. If the graph is of the temperature of some food when it has been in an over for different lengths of time, then the independent variable is the time and the temperature should be on the vertical axis. However, if the graph is of the temperature of the same food and the number of bacteria present in it, then the temperature is the independent variable and should be on the horizontal axis.
The variable which is controlled.On a graph, the independent variable is on the x-axis (horizontal) and the dependent variable is on the y-axis (vertical).When we choose a value of x, the value of y depends on the x-value we chose.For instance, if we record the temperature every hour, time is the independent variable because we control the values. The temperature (which is measured) is the dependent variable because it depends on the time.
When graphing in science, the independent variable is the variable graphed on the x-axis; the dependent variable is the variable graphed on the y-axis. To determine the name of the variable, one only needs to find the variable changed by the other variable and the variable remaining unaffected by the other variable. For example, someone wanted to find the the increased temperature of water over a stove during a period of time. Since increasing water temperature cannot affect time and increasing time can affect the water becomes the dependent variable and time becomes the independent variable.
A dependent variable depends on the independent variable. If you are doing an experiment about how temperature affects the heat of water then the independent variable would be the temperature, as that is what you are going to change, and the dependent variable the water as the temperature of the water depends on the temperature surrounding it.
Dependent variable: growth of crystals Independent variable: temperature.
That the surface tension of water varies with the water's temperature. In this case, temperature would be the independent variable and surface tension would be the independent variable.
Time is often an independent variable.
it depends really especially on the experiment you are doing.
The independent variable in this experiment is the temperature. This is the variable that is manipulated or controlled by the researcher to observe its effect on the volume of gas.
it depends the one you wish to control in the experiment , for example if the temperature was measured every minutes so the controlled variable is time...