Across
- 3. inquiry An ongoing,orderly,cyclical approach used to investigate the world.
- 4. Mandate, God's command that directs us to exercise wise and good dominion over his creation to the glory of God and for the benefit of fellow humans.
- 5. Science, The study of nonliving matter and energy.
- 6. A system of moral values;a theory of proper conduct.
- 8. A standardized system of measurement units used for science. SI stands for International System of units.
- 9. The degree of exactness of a measurement;can indicate the closeness or repeatability of measurements.
- 11. The comparison of a measurement to an accepted or expected value.
- 13. The systematic study of the universe that produces observations,inferences,and models,including the products that it creates through this systematic study.
- 15. The study of matter and energy and the interactions between them.
- 16. A model that explains a related set of phenomena;can be used to predict unobserved aspects of the phenomena.
Down
- 1. Data that is based on numbers or quantities;includes a number and a unit;also known as quantitative data.
- 2. The basis upon which a model is assessed,taking into account how well it explains or describes a set of observations and how well the model makes predictions.
- 7. An initial,testable explanation of a phenomenon that stimulates and guides scientific investigation.
- 10. A model, often expressed as a mathematical equation, that describes phenomena under certain conditions.
- 12. The study of the composition,structure,and properties of matter,and the changes that take place in matter.
- 14. A workable explanation or description of a phenomenon.