Across
- 1. Scientists use their results/data to create charts, table, and ____?____.
- 5. This is what you observe or measure in an experiment. It is the effect of the IV.
- 7. When you use all 5 senses to gather information.
- 8. This is a group that is part of an experiment that is not being tested and is there just for comparison.
- 10. The first step to the scientific method is to define or identify the ____?______.
- 16. This is a universal process used by scientists to find answers or solve a problem.
- 18. This is a fancy name for the results or data section in the scientific method.
- 19. This is data that is given using observations from your senses.
- 20. This another name for an educated guess using the words If, then, and because.
- 21. This is what is being tested or being changed on purpose in an experiment. "I TEST"
Down
- 2. A substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.
- 3. This is an explanation based on prior knowledge, observations, and background. (hint you made this when you thought the candle was wax)
- 4. This is the group that doesn't get the IV (independent variable); it is there for comparison only.
- 6. How many groups should there be in an experiment?
- 8. After the experiment is over, this is the last step. You write this us that restates the problem, briefly explain the lab, use data to support or not support your hypothesis, and state what you learned.
- 9. To make sure an experiment is valid, the experiment must be ___?____
- 11. Data that is given in the form of numbers.
- 12. This is the name of the directions of the lab.
- 13. This is the group that gets the IV (independent variable)
- 14. This is done after coming up with the problem and is the invisible letter in the scientific method.
- 15. This is the mnemonic of the scientific method that Ms. Benish uses.
- 17. These are the items in an experiment that are exact in both the test and control group.