Across
- 1. Any method of learning about the natural world that follows the scientific method
- 3. The entire portion of Earth inhabited by life
- 6. The set of common characteristics that distinguish living organisms, including such properties and processes as order, regulation, growth and development, energy utilization, response to the environment, reproduction, and the capacity to evolve over time
- 7. A biological community and its physical environment
- 9. The process of scientific inquiry that uses the steps of the scientific method to answer questions about nature
- 11. A tentative explanation that a scientist proposes for a specific phenomenon that has been observed
Down
- 2. A component of the process of science whereby a scientist carries out two parallel tests, an experimental test and a control test
- 3. The scientific study of life
- 4. Scientific investigation involving the observation of phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and results that validate or modify the hypothesis
- 5. A process in which organisms with certain inherited characteristics are more likely to survive and reproduce than are organisms with other characteristics; differential reproductive success
- 8. The process of scientific inquiry that focuses on describing nature
- 10. A widely accepted explanatory idea that is broad in scope and supported by a large body of evidence