Question

Victor has been studying the vascular systems of plants. He wanted to find out if food coloring would travel up the stalk of celery faster if the temperature of the water increased. Victor set up his experiment with three cups of colored water at different temperatures, three equal sized celery stalks, and a stopwatch. Cup A was filled with colored water at 21 C. Cup B was filled with cold colored water at 4 C, and Cup C was filled with warm colored water at 30 C. One celery stalk was placed in each cup at the same time. Victor timed how long it took the colored water to travel to the leaves at the top of the celery stalk. He measured the time in minutes. What is the independent variable

Answer 1

temperature

Step-by-step explanation:

The independent variable would be the colored water at different temperatures.

The independent variables are changeable or controllable variables supplied directly by researchers in the course of experiments. They produce effects on the dependent variable and are thus referred to as the 'cause' variable. The dependent variables are referred to as the 'effect' variables because their values vary based on that of the independent variables.

In this case, the only controlled variable of all the variables supplied by Victor is the temperature of the colored water. Changing the temperature of the colored water is expected to have effects on the time it will take for the colored water to travel to up the stalk of celery. Hence, the temperature is considered as the independent variable while the time it takes for the colored water to travel to the leave would be the dependent variable.