Chapter 3 Vocabulary Terms
Density
Conversion Factors
Scientific Notation
Significant Figures
100

A given number is written as the product of two numbers: a coefficient and 10 raised to a power.

What is Scientific Notation 

100

A bar of silver has a mass of 68.0g and a volume of 6.48 cm^3. What is the density of silver?

What is 10.4938 or 10.5 g/cm ^3

100
Convert 0.044 km to meters
What is 44m?
100
Express the number 700 in scientific notation.
What is 7 x 10^2?
100
0.05730 has _____ many significant figures.
What is 4?
200


Difference between the experimental value and the accepted value. 



What is an error

200
What is the volume of a sample that has a mass of 20 g and a density of 4 g/mL?
What is 5 mL?
200
Convert 0.107g to centigrams.
What is 10.7 cg?
200
Express 0.000000076 in scientific notation
What is 7.6 x 10^-8
200
40.007 has _____ many significant figures.
What is 5?
300

______ is a measure of how close a measurement comes to an actual or true value, while _______ is a measure of how close a series of measurements are to one another.

What is accuracy and precision?

300

Table sugar has a density of 1.59 g/cm^3. If a sugar cube has the dimensions of 1.2 cm by 1.5 cm by 1.3 cm, what is its Volume?

What is 2.34 cm cubed

300
Convert 6.7 s to milliseconds.
What is 6,700 milliseconds?
300
Express the quantity in regular notation along with its appropriate unit. 3.60 x 10^5 s
What is 360,000 s?
300

0.020

What is 2?

400

A revised version of the metric system.

What is International System of Units (SI)

400

What is the formula to identify density?

Mass divided by volume

400

Convert 15 cm^3 to liters.

What is 0.0150 liters?

400
Solve the problem and express the answer in scientific notation. (5 x 10^-5) + (2 x 10^-5)
What is 7 x 10^-5?
400
Multiply 8.3 meters x 2.22 meters. Give your answer in the correct number of significant digits.
What is 18 m^2?
500

All of the digits that are known, plus a last digit that is estimated.

What is Significant  Figures

500

Volume of a cube that is 10 centimeters along each edge.

What is a liter

500
The diameter of Earth is 1.3 x 10^4 km. What is the diameter expressed in decimeters?
What is 1.3 x 10^8 dm?
500
Solve the problem, and express the answer in scientific notation. (2 x 10^-4) x (3 x 10^2)
What is 6 x 10^-2?
500

Perform the following operation, and record your answer in the correct number of significant digits. 61.2 meters + 9.35 meters + 8.6 meters.

What is 79.2m? (79.15)

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