GLCA Chemistry Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Across
- 6. repeated experiments using multiple samples; more trials provide more conclusive results
- 7. Using the scientific method to do experiments
- 9. a scientific model that explains a phenomenon
- 10. Facts gathered that use numbers
- 11. Thinking that uses examples to see pattern
- 14. knowledge acquired by making inferences about events and processes in the past based on observations of evidence in the present
- 15. the variable in a controlled experiment that changes in response to variations in the independent variable
- 16. an experiment in which scientists cannot control the conditions
- 18. the group of samples not exposed to the independent variable
- 20. How Christians interpret all of life and make sense of the world
- 22. anything that takes up space and has mass
- 23. the process of having other scientists review scientific work by which the research is evaluated
- 24. a workable explanation, description, or representation of a phenomenon
- 25. using science to understand how and why things work
- 27. a process that involves randomly selected representative samples from a larger population
- 28. the perspective from which a person sees and interprets all of life
- 29. the group of samples exposed to the independent variable
- 30. the basis of a worldview
- 31. the variable in a controlled experiment that is purposely changed by the scientist
Down
- 1. Facts gathered that use language
- 2. a testable explanation for a phenomenon
- 3. an orderly process to observe a phenomenon, ideally under controlled conditions
- 4. a worldview that is based on a belief that matter is all that exists and that human reasoning informed by science is the only reliable path to truth
- 5. Thinking that involves logic
- 8. an experiment in which only one condition changes at a time
- 12. the study of matter and the changes that it undergoes
- 13. The organized means of experimentation to find solutions to observations
- 16. World view that denies God
- 17. using science to solve real-world problems
- 19. a scientific model that describes a phenomenon, often in mathematical terms
- 21. knowledge acquired by methods that involve real-time observations of present-day phenomena or first-person observations of events in the past
- 26. science that is based on data gathered from observations or an experiment