Across
- 3. A picture of information from a data table; shows the relationship between variables.
- 5. How close a group of measurements are to each other.
- 7. A representation of a complex object or process, used to help people understand a concept that they cannot observe directly.
- 10. Any area outside of the laboratory.
- 13. A system of units used by scientists to measure the properties of matter.
- 14. A group of related parts that work together to perform a function or produce a result.
- 15. Material, energy, or information that goes into a system.
- 19. A measure of the force of gravity acting on an object.
- 21. A sequence of actions in a system.
- 22. The number that appears most often in a list of numbers.
- 24. A line graph in which the data points do not fall along a straight line.
- 25. A sign used to alert you to possible sources of accidents in an investigation.
- 27. Output that changes a system or allows the system to adjust itself.
Down
- 1. A calculation used to determine how accurate, or close to the true value, an experimental value really is.
- 2. Data that do not fit with the rest of the data set.
- 4. All the digits in a measurement that have been measured exactly, plus one digit whose value has been estimated.
- 6. The amount of space that matter occupies.
- 8. The numerical average of a set of data.
- 9. An approximation of a number based on reasonable assumptions.
- 11. A line graph in which the data points yield a straight line.
- 12. A measure of how much matter is in an object.
- 16. A system of measurement based on the number 10.
- 17. The middle number in a set of data.
- 18. How close a measurement is to the true or accepted value.
- 20. Material, energy, result, or product that comes out of a system.
- 22. The curved upper surface of a liquid in a volume of liquid.
- 23. The measurement of how much mass of a substance is contained in a given volume.
- 26. The difference between the greatest value and the least value in a set of data.