Alice is conducting an experiment to study how the amount of sunlight affects the growth of sunflower she measures the height of sunflowers and inches and the number of hours of sunlight each day identify the independent variable and the dependent variableness experiment

The independent variable in this experiment is the number of hours of sunlight each day. This is the variable that Alice is intentionally manipulating and controlling.

The dependent variable in this experiment is the height of the sunflowers in inches. This is the variable that is being measured in response to the manipulation of the independent variable.