Across
- 4. a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
- 5. a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
- 6. measure of the amount of matter in an object.
- 8. pure substance which cannot be broken down by chemical means, consisting of atoms which have identical numbers of protons in their atomic nuclei.
Down
- 1. a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
- 2. anything that has mass and takes up space (it has volume).
- 3. the action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information.
- 7. the basic units of matter and the defining structure of elements.
