What is Chem?
Units & Measurements
Uncertainty in Data
Representing Data
Random Trivia
100

Chemistry is also referred to as this.

What is the central science?

100

This is known as the standard units of measurement all around the world.

What are SI units?

100
How close a series of measurements are to each other is known as this.

What is precision?

100

Scientists use these to better display data and observe trends in that data.

What is a graph?

100

This popular soft drink at one time included "cocaine" as one of its ingredients.

What is Coca-Cola?

200

This is an explanation of a natural phenomenon based on many investigations over time. 

What is a scientific theory?

200

This is known as the SI unit for temperature.

What is Kelvin?

200

The average size of a pencil is 19 cm. My 3 other pencils measured in at 17 cm, 18.4 cm, and 19 cm. 

Are these measurements accurate?

What is they are accurate?

200

I want to compare favorite ice cream flavors among Summit Academy.

This graph best fits the data collected.

What is a bar graph?

200

This is considered the most disliked food in America.

What are anchovies?

300

This type of research is for the sake of knowledge itself.

What is pure research?

300

Convert this number to scientific notation:

0.000000000420

What is 4.20x10^-10?

300

The number "3.5" has this many significant figures.

What is 2?

300

I want to describe the composition of our solar system such as the amount of hydrogen or helium in space.

This graph best fits the data.

What is a circle graph/pie graph?

300

This is the national animal of Scotland.

What is a unicorn?

400

This is the reason why scientists around the world use mass rather than weight when measuring matter.

What is mass stays the same everywhere on Earth, weight does not?

Weight accounts for mass AND gravity, and gravity is NOT the same everywhere on Earth!

400

If my car is reportedly going 45 mph, how many km/h is that?

(1 mile = 1.609 km)

What is 72 km/h?

400

The number "0.00301" has this many significant figures.

What is 3?

400

I want to study a person's height as they grow over time.

This graph best fits the data.

What is a line graph?

400

This document is required in order to travel across the country.

What is a passport?

500

Chemists study this.

What is matter and the changes they undergo?

500

I have 30 milligrams of an unknown substance. How many grams of the substance do I have?

(1 mg = 0.001 g)

What is 0.03 g?

500

Round this number to 3 significant figures:

7.15926535

What is 7.16?

500

This is the reason why extrapolation is less reliable than interpolation.

What is extrapolation is just a guess beyond data we have available. Interpolation is data we already observe on a graph or table.

500

“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries” is from this classic 1975 movie. 

What is Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

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