How many of the barn owls prey are herbivores, omnivores, or carnivores.

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gahhhh i hate science!

anyway, we have to find manuplitive and responding variblies for my question. My question is how many of the barn owls prey are herbivores, omnivores, or carnivores. I neeeeeeeed help.
btw, this is 6th grade Advanced Science.
and please, no rude comments… i really need help.

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Answer by Matthew
I’m not sure from the description you’ve given of your question whether it has any manipulative or responding variables.

Here are some links which give examples of experiments which do have manipulative / responding (or sometimes called dependent / independent) variables.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_variables.shtml
https://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/po/independentvar.htm

In your case, you have a barn owl and some prey which might be herbivore, omnivore or carnivore, but I can’t see what the ’cause and effect’ you’re trying to measure could be.

If your question was something like “Does an owls size depend on its prey” then you could say the manipulative variable would be the prey (look for types of owls with different prey) and the responding variable is the owl’s size (are they different sizes when the prey is different?).

Can you see how that’s different to your question? I think the way your question is worded makes it sound like a ‘survey’ rather than an ‘experiment’ question, which is probably why you’re finding it difficult to identify the variables.

Hope that helps.