Properties of Matter
Units of Measure: Conversions
Significant Figures
Percent Error:
Accuracy and Precision
Scientific Method and Scientific Notation
100

Metal rusting is an example

What is a chemical change?

100

The number of milliliters in 0.603 L

What is 603 mL?

100

The number of significant figures in 0.0045671002 g

What are 8 significant figures?

100

The closeness of a measurement or set of measurements to the correct or accepted value.

What is accuracy?

100

A testable statement that serves as a basis for making predictions and carrying out further experiments

What is a hypothesis?

200

Color, smell, and boiling point are all examples

What is a physical property?

200

The number of cm in 0.09225 km

What is 9225 cm?

200

The product of 0.8102 m and 3.44 m expressed in correct significant figures and units

What is 2.79 m2?

200

The closeness of a set of measurements to one another

What is precision?

200

1. The manipulated variable

2. The responding variable

1. What is independent variable?
2. What is dependent variable?

300

Density is one because it is independent from the quantity of matter present

What is intensive property?

300

The density in g/cm3 of a material given that 15.03 g occupies 13.24 mL

What is 1.135 g/cm3?

300

Round 399 893 201 m to 3 significant figures

What is 4.00 x 108 m?

300

The formula for % error

What is [experimental value - accepted value]/accepted value  x 100%?

300

Express the answer in scientific notation with the correct number of significant figures:

0.002115 m x 0.0000405 m

What is 8.57 x 10-8 m2?

400

Boiling point vs. time to boil would be examples of these comparable properties whereas boiling point vs. combustibility would be examples of these comparable properties. Be sure to identify not only the types of properties but also which align with which.

What are boiling point and time to boil would represent intensive and extensive properties respectively? Whereas boiling point in relation to combustibility would be a physical vs. a chemical property respectively.

400

How many grams are in 22 ng?

What are 0.000 000 022 g? (2.2 x 10-8g)

400

Divide 1.089 kg by 3.22345 m3. Express the answer in correct units and significant figures. State what the above calculation is a measure of and convert the answer into units of g/mL.

What is 0.3378 kg/m3 and what is density?

0.0003378 g/mL or 3.378 x 10-4 g/mL

400

Student A measured values of 2.03 mL, 2.02 mL, and 1.99 mL; Student B measured values of 2.00 mL, 1.93 mL, and 2.08 mL. The accepted value was 2.01 mL. The student who was more precise was _________ and the student who was more accurate was _________.

What is A was more precise and more accurate?

400

Write the following in scientific notation

a. 0.000 000 673 0
b. 50 000.000 00
c. 0.000 003 

What is 

a. 6.730 x 10-7
b. 5.000 000 000 x 104
c. 3 x 10-6

500

Magnetism itself is an example of a(n) 1)_______________property whereas magnetic strength would be an example of a 2)__________________ property. 

What are 1) intensive and 2) extensive?

500

0.654 ng of sucrose converted to µg, mg, cg and kg

What are 0.000654 µg, 0.000 000 654 mg or 6.54 x 10-7 mg, and 0.000 000 065 4 cg or 6.54 x 10-8 cg, and 6.54 x 10-13 kg.

500

The sum of 6.07812 g and 0.328 g. 

The difference of 9.299 cm and 7.11 cm.

What is 6.406 g?

What is 2.19 cm?

500

A student recorded density measurements of 1.245, 1.278, and 1.310 g/mL. The accepted density is 1.250 g/mL. Calculate the percent error.

What is 2.2%?

500

Add 2.35 x 10-5g and 6.451 x 10-6g

What is 3.00 x 10-5 g?

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