Ryen Brown 8/29/24 SCI-311 Ch.1 Vocab

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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; a theory of proper conduct.
  5. 8. a standardized system of measurement units used for science. SI stands for Internation System of Units (from the French Systeme International d'Unites)
  6. 9. degree of exactness of a measurement; can indicate the closeness or repeatability of measurements.
  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, including the products that it creates through this systematic study.
  9. 15. The study of matter and energy and the interactions between them
  10. 16. A model that explains a related wet of phenomena; can be used to predict unobserved aspects of phenomena
Down
  1. 1. data that is based on numbers or quantities; includes a number and a unit; also known as quantitative data.
  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.