Math in Science
There are this many significant digits in 1000.10
What are the 6 significant digits in 1000.10?
The step in the scientific method that involves formulating a tentative explanation to answer a scientific problem
What is hypothesizing?
This is a solid cube of each of the following substances that is placed with water (p = 1.0g/cm^3 and floats
a) coal (p = 1.3 g/cm^3)
b) maple wood (p = 0.75g/cm^3)
c) osmium (p = 22.5 g/cm^3)
d) none of them
What is maple wood (p = 0.75g/cm^3)?
This prefix is added to a unit to indicate one-thousandth
This term describes the statement "if soil is rich in nitrogen, then grass will grow in it"
What is a hypothetical proposition?
The minimum characteristic that a design must have to function
What is a criteria?
K = C + 273.15
What is the conversion of Celsius to Kelvin?
The step of the scientific method that involves organizing data and researching the findings of other scientists' data
What is observing?
This property causes matter to resist changes in motion
This is an SI unit for mass
What is a kilogram?
This statement demonstrates this, "If an object is made of iron, it will not float in water. This object is made or iron. Therefore, it will not float in water"
What is affirming the antecedent?
Closeness of a measurement to the quantity's actual value
What is accuracy?
The number 4.8 x 10^-7 in standard from
What is 0.00000048?
This is the ability of other scientists to reach the same conclusion by performing the same experiement under different conditions
What is reproducability?
The ability to do work
What is energy?
The system of measurement accepted as the standard scientific and technical purposes
What is the international system of measurement (SI)?
The conclusion based on reasoning from evidence
What is an inference?
A statement that vest explains how math and science relate to each other
What is the language of science?
The number 2,200,000 in scientific notation
What is 2.2 x 10^6?
For a STEM project, Emma built several model cars with the exact shape, proportions, and appearance as the cars they represented. This is the type of model she built.
What is a physical model?
The measure of an object's thermal energy
A specific measure to which other measures are compared to ensure uniformity
What is a standard of measure?
This reasoning from specific evidence to a general conclusion
What is inductive reasoning?
0.0000090 represented in scientific notation
What is 9.0 x 10^-6?
d =P substance/P water
What is the formula for calculating specific gravity of platinum?
What type of reasoning will determine cause and effect
What is inductive reasoning?
What is volume?
The system of measurement that adds a prefix to each basic unit to make it a larger or smaller number
What is the metric system?
Predicting the difference in the flight distance of a hand-launched airplane and a rubber-band-launched airplane is an example of what method of reasoning
What is the method of difference?
The power of ten that they prefix kilo represents
What is 10^3?
F = 9/5 (C+40) - 40
What is the formula for converting Celsius to Fahrenheit?
If some data could exist that would prove a hypothesis to be incorrect, the hypothesis would be this
What is falsifiable?
the amount of gravitational pull on an object
What is weight?
The metric prefix that represents a unit to the power of 10^-2
What is centi-?
This is the fallacy that will occur when a single term is ambiguously use with two different meanings in a single argument
What is equivocation?
The substance that can be described to the physical world
What is matter?
p = m/V
What is the way to calculate density of a necklace?
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When baking soda is added to a container of vinegar, a gas is produced. Does this represent a physical change or a chemical change? Why?
Chemical change; the gas is a new substance
The amount of matter in an object
This is the best way to determine the volume of a large, irregularly shaped solid
What is fluid displacement?
This is the logical fallacy involved in assuming that one thing causes another because it occurred before the other
What is the post hoc fallacy?
The push or pull of an object
What is force?
V object = V final - V initial
What is the calculation to find the volume of a plastic toy (giraffe)?
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McKenzie threw three darts at a target. The darts landed close to each other. She measured how close the darts landed to the center of the target. The measured distances were 20.3 cm, 18.7 cm, and 19.5 cm. Are her throws accurate or precise? Explain.
Precise but not accurate, they are close to each other but far from the target
The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a standards substance
What is specific gravity?
The sum of 9.21m, 12.2m, and 13.022m in significant digits
What is 34.4?
A young child said that if a person crosses his eyes too much, then they will stay crossed. He claimed that his friends should believe him because his father is a doctor. This is the logical fallacy the young child committed
What is an argument from authority?
A statement of fact
What is an inference?