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SCIENCE VARIABLES
Understanding variables in Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Independent | The thing we change in our experiment |
| Dependent | The thing we measure in our experiment |
| Control | The variables which we have to keep the same in the experiment |
| Categoric | Variables which are words which can be put into groups |
| Continuous | Variables which are number which have any value |
| Discrete | Variables which are numbers but can only have certain values |
| Ordered | Variables which are words which can be put into an order eg small, medium and large |