Scientific Method Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. A statement about what happens in nature and that seems to be true all the time.
  2. 5. An explanation of things or events based on knowledge from many repeated experiments.
  3. 8. Describes the steps you use during an experiment.
  4. 11. Occurs when a scientist's expectations change how the results of an experiment are viewed.
  5. 12. The first step of the scientific method is to define or identify the ____________.
  6. 13. The part of the experiment that is not being tested and is used for comparison.
  7. 15. A process used by scientists to find answers to questions or solve a problem.
  8. 17. This variable is the part of the experiment that is being tested or the part that is changed by the person doing the experiment.
  9. 18. This variable is the part of the experiment that is affected by the independent variable.
Down
  1. 1. After the experiment, scientists organize and _____ the data.
  2. 2. An educated guess.
  3. 3. Sometimes scientists make a mistake, or _____, and need to do an experiment again.
  4. 6. Scientists make _______to help them make a hypothesis or collect data during an experiment.
  5. 7. Scientists write this after an experiment to summarize their experiment and results.
  6. 9. Can be used to represent an idea, object, or event that is too big, too small, too complex, or too dangerous to observe or test directly.
  7. 10. Scientists use their data to make charts and _____ to communicate the results of an experiment.
  8. 14. The information collected during an experiment.
  9. 16. After scientists make a hypothesis, they perform a(n) _____ to collect data.