Questions about Goldfish Respiration Experiment
1. What happened to the respiration rate when the water got
warmer? Use numbers.
2. What happened to the respiration rate when the water got colder?
Use numbers.
3. Can you name anything else that could have changed the breathing rate of the
goldfish?
4. Write down anything you saw the fish do as the water got colder or warmer.
Warmer-
Colder-
5. Look at your graph. Did your fish follow the class average line or your line?
6. Which line on the graph is more accurate, your Fish Line or the Class Average Fish
Line?
Why is it more accurate?
7. Was your hypothesis at the beginning of the lab correct or incorrect?
8. What was the variable of this experiment? (What was the ONE thing you did change?)
9. What were the controls of this experiment? (What was kept the same, it never changed?)
10. How you would conduct an experiment to test if light would make a difference in the
number of times a fish breathed.