Chapter 1 Using Scientific Inquiry Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. inquiry - the process of gathering evidence about the natural world and proposing explanations based on it's evidence
  2. 4. - making a statement on a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence
  3. 5. - something based on reasoning from prior knowledge (not a guess)
  4. 6. - a way of learning about the natural world
  5. 8. reasoning - reasoning based on personal feelings or values
  6. 12. variable - one factor that is purposely changed to test the hypothesis
  7. 14. - a possible answer to a scientific question
  8. 15. variable - the factor that may change in response to the independent variable
  9. 16. experiment- a scientific experiment where 1 variable is changed at a time
Down
  1. 1. - using one or more senses to gather information
  2. 3. an conclusions that have been repeated
  3. 7. error in the design of the experiment
  4. 9. - evaluating observations and data to reach a conclusion about them
  5. 10. reasoning - reasoning based on evidence
  6. 11. - based on empirical evidence and well reasoned interpretation of data
  7. 13. evidence - data that is collected using scientific processes that describe particular observations