science unit one vocabulary
Across
- 1. a desription that cannot be expressed with numbers
- 5. an experiment in which all factors are identical except one
- 6. the number in a list that appers most often in the numbers
- 7. the numarical average of the numbers in a list
- 10. factor that changes as a result of changes in other variables
- 12. process of forecasting what will happen in the future based on past experemnts or evedence
- 13. organized facts and data
- 14. decription that can be expressed with numbers
- 15. process of grouping together items that are alike in some ways
- 16. educated guess using what you know and what you observe
- 19. decribes how closely measerments are to eachother and how carefully the measurments were made
- 20. applications of science that help people
Down
- 2. factor that,as it changes,affects the measure of another variable
- 3. steepness of a line on a graph
- 4. the middle number in a list of numbers
- 6. can be used to represent an idea,object,or event that is to big, to small,too complex,or too dangerous to observe or test directly
- 8. factor that can change in an experiment
- 9. visual display of information or data that can provide a quick way to communicate alot of information and allow scientist to observe patterns
- 11. process of making an inferrence,an interuption based on observation and prior knowladge
- 17. process of using one or more of your sences to gather information
- 18. law-statement about what happens in nature that seems to be true all the time