| A | B |
| process skills | The skills scientist use to solve problems or "mysteries". |
| infer | to draw a conclusion based on know data |
| predict | to fortell a future event based on known data |
| measurement | to obtain numbers using a standard measuring device |
| classification | to sorting objects into groups based on likeness |
| communication | expressing ideas using models, graphs, movement, pictures, and oral and written techniques |
| observation | using the five senses to collect data |
| data | information |
| vague | to be unclear or puzzling |
| motive | reason for doing something |
| alibi | claim to be somewhere else when a crime was committed |
| snubbed | treated rudely |
| evidence | something that helps prove guilt or innocence |