Across
- 1. Passing from sight because light is cut off. In an eclipse of the sun, the moon is between the earth and the sun, cutting off light.
- 5. An instrument with lenses for making small objects look larger.
- 7. A person who has expert knowledge of some branch of science.
- 8. Force which tends to pull objects toward the center of the earth.
- 13. A change in which one substance is converted into one or more other substances with different properties.
- 14. The force with which a body is attracted by gravity.
- 15. Something that tends to prove.
- 17. A reasoning process by which one starts with a general principle that is accepted as true, applies it to a particular case, and arrives at a conclusion.
Down
- 2. Systematic arrangement into groups.
- 3. A general idea, statement, rule, or principle.
- 4. The power or act of feeling or perceiving. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell are the five senses.
- 6. The act, habit, or power of seeing and nothing.
- 9. Space occupied, as measured in three dimensions.
- 10. A reasoning process by which one collects many particular cases, finds out what is common, and forms a general rule that is taken to be true.
- 11. A syllable at the beginning of a word to alter its meaning.
- 12. Measure of the quantity of matter a body contains, independent of gravity.
- 16. Knowledge based on observed facts and tested truths arranged in an orderly system.
