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Across 2. when the moon is growing. From the new moon to the full moon, it is ______. 6. the synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well tested and verified hypotheses about certain aspects of the natural world is a ________. 7. the shape of a moon that is LESS than half but not a new moon. It is curved with two points. 9. any object orbiting a planet -- including the moon. 10. everything in the universe with mass pulls on everything else -- it's a really weak force 14. close agreement among competent observers of natural phenomenon. 16. when a hypothesis about the relationship among natural quantities is tested over and over again and never contradicted it may become a ___________________. 17. the response to the change in the independent variable. This is the reaction. 18. the shape of the orbits that the planets follow around the sun 19. Newton realized that the moon is actually __________ around the earth

Down 1. the variable that I change on purpose and test in an experiment. This is also called the manipulated variable. 3. a strategy for remembering important information. 4. the two "centers" of an ellipse 5. tan extremely effective method for gaining organizing and applying new knowledge. 7. running the experiment or the trial without changing the independent variable. 8. the shape of the moon when it is MORE than halfway lit but not a full moon. 11. an educated guess that is not fully accepted until demonstrated by experiment. 12. another name for a scientific law. 13. the parts are the factors in an experiment that we are not testing. We want these factors to be the same for all of the trials of the experiment. 15. when the moon is shrinking from the full moon to the new moon, it is _______.