Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Inquiry An ongoing, orderly, cyclical approach used to investigate the world
  2. 4. Mandate God’s command that directs us to exercise wise and good dominion over His creation to the glory of God and for the benefit of fellow humans
  3. 5. Science The study of nonliving matter and energy
  4. 6. A system of moral values
  5. 8. A standarized system of measurement units used for science. ( Systems of Units)
  6. 9. The degree of exactness of a measurement
  7. 11. The comparison of a measurement to an accepted or expected value
  8. 13. The systematic study of the universe that produces observations, inferences, and models
  9. 15. The study of matter and energy and the interactions between them
  10. 16. A model that explains a related set of phenomena
Down
  1. 1. Data that is based on numbers or quantities
  2. 2. The basis upon which a model is assessed, taking into account how well it explains or describes a set of observations and how well the model makes predictions
  3. 7. An initial, testable explanation of a phenomenon that stimulates and guides scientific investigation
  4. 10. A model, often expressed as a mathematical equation, that describes phenomena under certain conditions
  5. 12. The study of the composition, structure, and properties of matter and the changes that take place in matter
  6. 14. A workable explanation or description of a phenomenon