Across
- 6. deals with the physical constitution of the earth and its atmosphere
- 11. the group that the independent variable is NOT being changed
- 12. the group where you are changing the independent variable
- 14. words, descriptive observations
- 15. concerned with the study of living organisms and how they interact with Earth
- 16. deals with inanimate matter or energy
- 19. Something that is known, something that can be observed
- 20. As x increases, y decreases.
- 22. how close data is to each other
- 23. numbers,measurable
- 25. What you are observing based on your changes (the data you are measuring)
Down
- 1. consists of two major elements: Materials & Methods
- 2. As x increases, y also increases.
- 3. Describes WHAT happens every single time, under certain conditions
- 4. There is no relationship between x and y.
- 5. number in middle after entries are placed in numerical order
- 7. what you change in an experiment as you set it up
- 8. A method used to answer questions about our world. The ideal order is Problem/Question/Observation → Hypothesis → Experiment → Data → Conclusion. However, this can change in the real world.
- 9. Something that is testable, an educated guess at an answer to a question, something that includes BOTH what you know AND research
- 10. Our understanding as to WHY or HOW something happens
- 13. how close data is to the accepted or true value
- 17. most frequent number in a data set
- 18. an objective, self correcting method for gathering and organizing information about the natural world through repeated observations and experimentation
- 21. any factor that can have more than one value
- 24. sum of numbers divided by number of entries