Across

2. Science is definitely not this.

4. A standard group or trial against which experimental trials or groups are compared in a scientific experiment.

6. An organized scientific study of the natural world. There are 5 basic types

8. Another question that science asks is "How does it ..?...

9. Science is the concerted effort to understand how this works

11. Science uses observable .... .... (no spaces) as the basis of understanding.

12. Trials in an experiment that have one variable changed. The results of these trials are compared to the controls to test out the experiment's hypothesis.

15. A laboratory investigation in which the values of all variables are kept the same except the one that is manipulated and the one that responds.

16. Science isn't this.

18. Science isn't this either!

19. A simplified representation of a system. Useful for studying big, small, or dangerous systems

21. Experimental Information recorded with numbers found in nature.

23. Begins with O.... science is....

26. Science is public and ...?...

27. Science is done by....

28. The scientific study of free living plants & animals in their natural habitat.

29. In the first step of the scientific method a scientist states the ....

30. The variable in an experiment that may change as a result of the Manipulated variable.

 

Down

1. To arrive at a decision or logical conclusion by reasoning from evidence.

3. The conditions (variables) that are kept the same from trial to trial in a laboratory investigation.

5. Science assumes this that the universe can be...?....

7. One of the three basic questions Science asks

10. Factors in an experiment that were not controlled or may have been overlooked.

13. The one variable in an experiment being investigated. Is deliberately changed to determine its relationship or effect on the responding variable

14. If an experiment's results aren't ...... , it's not a good experiment.

17. The imitation of some real thing, state of affairs or process. Represents key parts of a selected system

20. Skill of recognizing and noting some fact or occurance in the natural world, including the act of measuring..uses tools and/or senses.

22. How did it come to .... .... .... ? (no spaces) is another basic question science asks.

24. Any changed or changing factor in an experiment used to test a hypothesis or prediction ... that could affect the investigation's results.

25. The S in SHOERAP

 

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