Across
- 3. A quantity that is unknown but assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context
- 5. ideas based on scientific rules and laws that are generally accepted by scientists
- 8. the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry
- 9. a variable that stands alone and isn't changed by the other variables you are trying to measure
- 11. a thing that is known or proved to be true.
- 14. the application of mathematics and statistics to answer questions in biological and environmental sciences
- 15. group is used to establish a cause-and-effect relationship by isolating the effect of an independent variable
Down
- 1. the creative application of science
- 2. a scientific method of observation to gather non-numerical data
- 4. something that depends on other factors
- 6. the basic unit of life
- 7. group The group in a clinical research study that receives the drug, vaccine, or other intervention being tested
- 10. anything that can change or be changed
- 12. a carefully thought-out explanation for observations of the natural world that has been constructed using the scientific method, and which brings together many facts and hypotheses
- 13. describe phenomena that the scientific community has found to be provably true