Across
- 2. Well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment
- 3. The variable you manipulate or vary in an experimental study to explore its effects
- 4. Scientists pursue answers for knowledge
- 6. Your findings based on your experiment
- 9. Not based on scientific data, anything that pretends to be science but is not
- 13. The study of living organisms
- 14. The act of passing from one proposition, statement, a conclusion that has been reached by way of evidence and reasoning
- 15. Phase of testing your prediction
- 16. Statement that describes an observable occurrence in nature that appears to always be true
- 17. Data item whose values cannot change during the experiment, Variable that stays the same.
Down
- 1. What we expect will influence dependent variables
- 5. Prediction based of your research
- 7. Investigation and Research
- 8. Making an observation, forming a hypothesis, making a prediction, conducting an experiment and finally analyzing the results
- 10. Subject matter to help with quizzes and tests
- 11. Study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained
- 12. Science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy