Uncertainty in Data
Measurement
Characteristics
Representing Data
100

A measured value is to an accepted value.

What is Accuracy?

100

A physical property of matter and is defined as the amount of mass per unit volume.

What is Density

100

A testable explanation of a situation or phenomena

What is a hypothesis?

100

the variable that a scientist deliberately changes during an experiment

what is an independent variable 

200

How close a series of measured value is to an accepted value.

What is Precision?

200

A ratio of equivalent values having different units.

What is a Conversion Factor

200

An explanation of a natural phenomenon based on many observations and investigations over time

What is a theory?

200

the dependent variable decreases as the independent variable increases

what does a negative slope indicate 

300

0.000456 has ___ Sig Figs.

What is 3?

300

Two quantities that are measured in delivered units are volume (cm3) and Density (g/cm3).

What is a Delivered Unit 

300

Relationship in nature that is supported by many experiments

What is scientific law?

300

chemicals that interact with receptors on nerve cells to reduce pain

what are opioids

400

A visible display of data.

What is data?

400

A point where all particles are at their lowest possible energy state.

What is Kelvin

400

To solve a specific problem

What is applied research?

400

the compound formula of C2H3Cl3

what is methyl chloroform

500

The difference between an experimental value and an accepted value.

What is Error?

500

A defined unit in a system of measurement that is based on a object or event in the physical world.

What is a Base Unit

500

Gain knowledge for the sake of knowledge itself

What is pure research?

500

the slope of the line represents the material's density

what happens when the mass of a material is plotted against its volume

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