Used throughout the world & in science. Based on moving the decimal.
What is the Metric System?
100
How many and which dimensions I would use to determine the amount of space a television remote control takes.
What are three dimensions: length, width, and height?
100
The 3 different ways to express the units for density.
What are g/ml, g/cm3, g/cc?
100
The metric standard (base unit) for mass and volume
What are grams and liters?
100
Define Gravity
What is "the measure of the pull of gravity on an object/matter"
200
The method of measurement in ancient times
What is the cubit?
200
How many and what dimensions are used to find how much space a poster covers.
What are 2 dimensions: length and width?
200
In a test tube with water (1 g/cc), salt water (1.1 g/cc), and alcohol (0.8 g/cc), it would be on the bottom.
What is salt water?
200
The metric standard for linear measurement.
What is meter?
200
The capacity to do work. Examples include: sunlight, heat, lightening
What is energy?
300
The measurement system in the US and only two other countries.
What is the English System?
300
A graduated cylinder and an overflow can are used to find this.
What is volume?
300
A copper pipe has a density of 9 g/cc. This is the mass of the 3 cc copper pipe.
What is 27 grams?
300
An atom.
What is the smallest unit of an element that still has all the properties of that element?
300
The tool used to determine weight.
The tool used to determine mass.
What are a scale and a balance?
400
Why the cubit system does not exist any longer.
What is • Everyone’s arm length is different
• No consistency from person to person
400
A plasma television is shipped to the moon. This happens to the weight of the television while on the moon.
What is the weight decreases due to the lack of much gravity.
400
A person who weighs 110 kg and has a volume of 100 liters has this for a specific gravity.
What is 1.1?
Specific gravity = mass per volume of object/
mass per same volume of water
= 110 kg per 100 L person
100 kg per 100 L water
400
The basic unit of living things and the basic unit of matter.
What are the cell and the atom?
400
Define "specific gravity" and its units.
What is the relationship between the density of an object and the density of water with no units?
500
Why we use math in science.
What is math is a tool to explain science?
500
20 grams of steel has a volume of 4 cc. What is the density of steel?
What is
D= M/V
D = 20 g/4cc
D = 5 g/cc
500
A diet coke and regular are placed in water. The diet coke floats while the regular coke sinks. This is the reason.
What is the diet coke has less mass in the same volume as regular coke, making D.C. less dense than Coke.
500
Daily Double!!!
What would your team like to wager?
A ping pong ball and a rock are placed in 100 mL of water and each displaces 10 mL of water. Explain why it is or is not possible to compare the volumes.
500
Since the air in the earth's atmosphere has mass and volume, it is an example of this.