Question

A student does an experiment for a science fair to study whether temperature affects the timing of a cricket’s chirps. The student keeps a cricket in an enclosed box that is heated to different temperatures each day for twelve days. The student records the cricket’s chirps by using a sound-activated microphone so the timing of the chirps can be measured. Which is the dependent variable in this experiment?

Answer 1

In this given experiment where the student records the crickets chirp for 12 days at different temperatures, the dependable variable is the behavior of the cricket and its chirps.

A dependable variable always depends on the independent variable in any scientific experiment.  

The scientist changes the independent variable to record the reactions of the dependable variable.