What Is Scientific Method?

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The act of making and recording a measurement (11)
  2. 6. To make plain and comprehensible (7)
  3. 7. A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply (8)
  4. 8. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn (4)
  5. 9. A general conscious awareness (plural) (6)
  6. 10. A proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations (10)
  7. 14. Anything providing permanent evidence of or information about past events (6)
  8. 15. Systematic investigation to establish facts (8)

Down

  1. 1. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal (plural) (5)
  2. 2. The temporal end (10)
  3. 3. To arrange by systematic planning and united effort (8)
  4. 4. The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation (10)
  5. 5. Any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude (4)
  6. 11. A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved (7)
  7. 12. To recognize as being (8)
  8. 13. To consider in detail and subject to an ___ in order to discover essential features or meaning (7)