GLCA Chemistry Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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