ABOUT SCIENCE

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Across
  1. 2. experiment/an experiment in which only one variable is tested at a time.
  2. 3. that competent observers can agree is true.
  3. 4. educated guess or a reasonable explanation. When the hypothesis can be tested by experiment, it qualifies as a scientific hypothesis.
  4. 7. method/an orderly method for gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge.
  5. 9. collection of fats and well-tested hypotheses.
  6. 10. scientific hypothesis that has been tested over and over again and has not been disproven; also known as a principle.
Down
  1. 1. means of solving practical problems by applying the findings of science.
  2. 5. theory or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation but purports to use the methods of science.
  3. 6. organized body of human knowledge about nature; also, the process of exploring nature and discovering the order within it.
  4. 8. science/the study of the five basic natural sciences-physics, chemistry, biology, Earth science, and astronomy-and the way in which they overlap.