How closely a measured value agrees with the correct value.
What is accuracy?
200
A qualitative or quantitative description of an object or event. Also, the first step in the scientific method.
What is an Observation?
200
The SI unit for time.
What is a second?
200
10 to the third power.
What is kilo (k)?
200
How closely individual measurements agree with each other.
What is precision?
300
The variable in a controlled experiment that the scientist changes.
What is the independent variable?
300
The SI unit for mass.
What is a kilogram?
300
Ten to the negative ninth power.
What is nano (n)?
300
The number of coefficients in a number written in scientific notation.
What is one?
400
A well tested expanation. Usually accepted by many scientists and tested over many years. It should never be thought of as the absolute truth and is subject to change.
What is a scientific theory?
400
The non-standard, but commonly used, unit for measuring the volume of a liquid.
What is a Liter?
400
Ten to the ninth power.
What is giga (G)?
400
The number in the following value that is uncertain: 2.374
What is 4?
500
A statement about something that we always see in nature. It states a finding but not the explanation for the observation.
What is a scientific law?
500
A combination of standard SI units, sometimes even renamed.
What is a derived unit?
500
Ten to the negative 6th power.
What is micro (u)?
500
The length of the following pencil recorded to the appropriate certainty.