Scientific Notation
SI Units
Dimensional Analysis
Significant Figures
Error
100
The exponent on 10 is _______ for very large numbers and ________ for very small numbers.
What is positive; negative.
100
What SI stands for
What is System International?
100
What always goes in the top left box of the goal post
What is the starting point?
100
The number of significant figures 325 has
What is 3?
100
The closeness of a measurement to the intended measurement
What is accuracy?
200
The position of the decimal point for a number in scientific notation.
What is directly to the right of the first non-zero number?
200
The SI Unit for temperature and the number you add to convert it from degrees Celsius
What is Kelvin (K); 273
200
Going from one unit to another using math
What is dimensional analysis?
200
When trailing zeroes are counted as significant
What is when there a decimal somewhere in the number?
200
The closeness of a group of measurements to each other
What is precision?
300
1,254,000,000 in scientific notation
What is 1.254*10^9?
300
The meaning of the prefix nano (n)
What is 10^-9 or one billionth or one billion nanometers in one meter or .000000009 m = 1 nm?
300
The direction in which units are cancelled in dimensional analysis
What is diagonally?
300
What you need to look out for, rather than significant figures, when you are adding or subtracting
What is decimal places?
300
The formula for percent error
What is % error = ((abs(accepted-measured))/(accepted))*100
400
9.56*10^-8 in standard notation
What is 0.0000000956? (seven zeroes after the decimal point)
400
394 Kelvin in degrees Celsius
What is 121?
400
A ratio of equal values having different units
What is a conversion factor?
400
The number of significant figures that an exact number has
What is infinity?
400
A true or correct value; what you should have gotten when measuring
What is accepted value?
500
0.3478 in scientific notation
What is 3.478*10^1?
500
The number of mL in 56.34 L
What is 56,340?
500
The number of minutes in two years
What is 1,051,200 minutes?
500
The number of estimated digits that are allowed to be significant.
What is one?
500
The value that you measured or calculated yourself
What is measured value?
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