APES Unit 0 Crossword
Across
- 1. An objective method to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes.
- 6. A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance.
- 11. The data collection procedure of taking repeated measurements.
- 13. The process of making general statements from specific facts or examples.
- 15. A natural event that acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem.
- 16. The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature.
- 18. Living on Earth in a way that allows humans to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources.
- 19. Living.
- 20. A particular location on Earth with interacting biotic and abiotic components.
- 22. In a scientific investigation, a group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study.
- 24. The number of times a measurement is replicated in data collection.
Down
- 2. The field of study that includes environmental science and additional subjects such as environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics.
- 3. The process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations.
- 4. Any categories, conditions, factors, or traits that differ in the natural world or in experimental situations.
- 5. A social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education.
- 7. A variable that is not dependent on other factors.
- 8. The physical law stating that when energy is transformed, the quantity of energy remains the same, but its ability to do work diminishes.
- 9. A variable that is dependent on other factors.
- 10. An estimate of how much a measured or calculated value differs from a true value.
- 12. A prediction that there is no difference between the groups or conditions that are being compared.
- 14. The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life.
- 17. A theory with no known exception that states that energy is neither created nor destroyed but it can change from one form to another.
- 21. A testable conjecture about how something works.
- 23. How close the repeated measurements of a sample are to one another.