Science Homework

6. The practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use.
8. Uses words to describe what is observed.
11. The factor that you want to test, it’s changed by the investigator to observe how it affects a dependent variable.
13. A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
14. The investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations..
16. A statement that will happen next in a series of events.
19. An interpretation of observations.
20. The expression of error as the percentage of the accepted value.
21. An explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.
22. The factor you observe or measure during an experiment.

1. The results of using one or more of your senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs.
2. Notation A method of writing or displaying very small or very large values in a short form.
3. Comparing what you already know with the information you are given in order to decide if you agree with it.
4. A spoken or written summary of observations.
5. Any factor that can have more than one value.
7. The factors in an experiment that do not change.
9. Uses numbers to describe what is observed.
10. System of Units (SI) The internationally accepted system of measurement.
12. Contains the same factors as the experimental group but the independent variable does not change.
15. A rule that describes a repeatable pattern in nature.
17. A logical explanation of an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
18. Used to study how a change in the independent variable changes the dependent variable.