Commonly Misused Science Vocabulary
Across
- 1. Organism that feeds mostly on plants.
- 2. To look for similarities.
- 7. Connection between two or more related things.
- 10. Using your five senses to gather information about your surroundings.
- 15. To look for differences.
- 16. Organism that feeds on plants and animals.
- 17. Correctness of a measurement.
- 19. To move from one place to another.
- 20. The force with which an object is attracted toward the center of the planet by gravity.
- 21. Basic unit of matter.
- 23. Substance’s mass per unit of volume.
Down
- 1. Prediction or explanation that is tested by an experiment.
- 3. Pure form of matter.
- 4. Change of a solid to a liquid when heat is applied.
- 5. Repeated order or arrangement.
- 6. When a solid, liquid or gas mixes with a liquid so the solution is the same throughout.
- 8. Measurement you use to describe how big or small something is.
- 9. Amount of matter in an object.
- 11. Statement based on evidence and reasoning.
- 12. Conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
- 13. Invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, is made of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, neon and hydrogen.
- 14. Information.
- 16. Chemical element with the symbol O.
- 18. Organism that eats mostly meat.
- 22. Anything that takes up space and can be weighed.