Student Reader Review and Crossword
Across
- 1. One the experiment is completed, it is time to collect the ____.
- 4. Although researchers initially hypothesized that beriberi was caused by bacteria in the blood, they eventually discovered that a lack of _____ in the diet caused beriberi.
- 7. Designing a medicine to treat an illness is an example of a case where two branches of science ____.
- 9. Physicists study subjects such as gravity, light, and ____.
- 12. Medicine is the study of diagnosing, treating, and preventing ____ and injury.
- 13. The factor that ______ in an experiment is called the dependent variable.
- 14. Science can help people solve practical _____ like treating diseases or using resources efficiently.
- 16. Chemistry is a branch of science that deals with atoms, elements, and the _____ that take place between different elements.
- 17. Another name for biology is _____.
- 19. Researching a question can help scientist avoid ______ what others have already tried.
- 20. A ____ is an attempt to answer a question with a testable explanation.
- 22. A logical system using observations and experimentation to gain knowledge about the world around us is called _______.
- 25. One reason that scientists study science it to ______ how the world works.
Down
- 2. The scientific method begins by ______.
- 3. For an experiment to be fair ____ factor(s) should be changed at a time.
- 5. Zoology is the study of _____.
- 6. Three subcategories of Earth science include geology, _____, and meteorology.
- 8. Dr. Eijkman changed the diet of the sick chickens from ____ to unpolished rice.
- 9. When a hypothesis cannot be _______, scientists may make a speculation.
- 10. Astronomy is the study of ____________.
- 11. The study of earthquakes would most like fall under the scientific category of _____.
- 15. ______ was a disease that caused weakness and loss of appetite.
- 18. The _____ tests whether a hypothesis is supported or rejected.
- 21. A hypothesis is typically worded as an __________statement.
- 23. ____ science is the term for all sciences related to the planet we live on.
- 24. The scientific ______ is the name of the system that people have used to acquire scientific knowledge.