Across
- 2. Type of variable that changes in response to what you changed in an experiment.
- 4. It's used in an experiment as a way to ensure that the experiment actually works.
- 7. Series of processes followed by scientific investigators to produce knowledge.
- 9. Calculations, graphs, or tables are made to summarize and condense the information.
- 10. Conditions that the scientist holds unchanged during an experiment.
Down
- 1. For example, a scientist thinks that "If one gets less than 6 hours of sleep, then one will do worse on tests than if one obtains more rest.
- 3. Test the hypothesis and collect data.
- 5. Looking for patterns, trends, questions, and problems that we don’t understand.
- 6. Analyzing the results to obtain deductions around the hypothesis.
- 8. The next step once a researcher has made observations and conducted background research.