An experiment was designed to determine the effect of temperature on the growth rate of phasmids—insects more commonly known as "walking sticks." five walking sticks were grown in four different incubators, set at variable temperatures for two weeks. which component of the experiment is the dependent variable?
a.) growth of walking sticks
b.) number of walking sticks per incubator
c.) temperature of incubators
d.) amount of time data are collected
e.) species of walking sticks

a) Growth of walking sticks.

Explanation:

An independent variable is a characteristic that the researcher can change. In this experiment, the independent variable would be temperature.

A dependent variable, on the other hand, is the variable that you cannot change, but instead, it changes or depends on the independent variable. In this case, the dependent variable would be the growth of the walking sticks.

Why? Because the growth of these insects will depend on the temperature of each incubator.

All of the other options can be changed by the researcher, but what will happen -the result- when you change them will be the growth of the animals.

from almost the creation of the first true maps of the earth, people started seeing how continents would be able to fit together.   in particular, people noticed that south america fits almost exactly into africa.

you should be aware that while world maps were around early in the 1600’s and better defined by the end of the 1700’s, those maps were not ‘public’ but were treated as state secrets.   and so it was not till much later that the broader ‘science’ community had access to good quality and accurate world maps.

get the whole story here…

it is now known that most of the major continental masses can be fit together in a jigsaw process.   in fact we now know that the continents were indeed once all joined together as one land mass – the supercontinent of pangaea.

if you look at most world maps you will ponder how this is evidence, as the continents really don’t appear to ‘fit’ together very well.   what you need to understand is that the vast majority of maps are drawn using a map projection that has the north and south poles (which are points) are a line the width of the map at the top and bottom.   this means that the map distorts the true shape of the earth’s land and oceans as you love closer to the poles.     some other map projections distort less, but have the map shape looking like segments of an orange.   see here for a range of map projections.   check out the way greenland changes size in each!

what is more remarkable, is the next piece of evidence when added to the shape of continents.

location of mountains and fossils

what is remarkable, when you reassemble all the continents together, the ancient mountain ranges (many now eroded to their cores) and the location of rock types and fossils all match up.

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