Engage your students with this worksheet containing eight sentences, and students must identify the independent and dependent variables. They will practice pinpointing each scenario's independent and dependent variables to facilitate comprehension. For example, in the sentence "The number of red velvet cakes baked and the amount of red food coloring used," the independent variable is "the number of red velvet cakes baked," and the dependent variable is "the amount of red food coloring used." This means the amount of red food coloring you need depends on how many cakes you bake. In general, an independent variable is something you change or control in an experiment to see how it affects something else. The dependent variable is what changes because of the independent variable.