APES Unit 0 Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. An objective method to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes.
  2. 6. A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance.
  3. 11. The data collection procedure of taking repeated measurements.
  4. 13. The process of making general statements from specific facts or examples.
  5. 15. A natural event that acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem.
  6. 16. The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature.
  7. 18. Living on Earth in a way that allows humans to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources.
  8. 19. Living.
  9. 20. A particular location on Earth with interacting biotic and abiotic components.
  10. 22. In a scientific investigation, a group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study.
  11. 24. The number of times a measurement is replicated in data collection.
Down
  1. 2. The field of study that includes environmental science and additional subjects such as environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics.
  2. 3. The process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations.
  3. 4. Any categories, conditions, factors, or traits that differ in the natural world or in experimental situations.
  4. 5. A social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education.
  5. 7. A variable that is not dependent on other factors.
  6. 8. The physical law stating that when energy is transformed, the quantity of energy remains the same, but its ability to do work diminishes.
  7. 9. A variable that is dependent on other factors.
  8. 10. An estimate of how much a measured or calculated value differs from a true value.
  9. 12. A prediction that there is no difference between the groups or conditions that are being compared.
  10. 14. The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life.
  11. 17. A theory with no known exception that states that energy is neither created nor destroyed but it can change from one form to another.
  12. 21. A testable conjecture about how something works.
  13. 23. How close the repeated measurements of a sample are to one another.