Length/ SI
Length is measured by calculating the distance from one point to ____________.
What is another?
Volume is the amount of _________ an object or substance takes up.
What is space?
Temperature is the amount of ________ energy in an object.
What is heat?
This is used to measure mass by comparing the mass of an object to a known mass.
What is a balance?
Density is the measure of how much _____ is contained in a given volume.
What is mass?
A _________ __________ is used to measure length.
What is metric ruler?
In SI the basic unit for measuring volume is the _________ __________.
What is the cubic meter?
Mass is the measure of the amount of _______ in an object.
What is matter?
In SI, the basic unit for measuring density is kilograms/ _______?
What is cubic meter (cm3)?
What is a meter?
A cubic meter is used to measure the volume of ________.
What is solids?
The ___________ is the SI unit for time.
What is the second?
The ___________ is the basic unit for measuring mass.
What is the kilogram?
To calculate density, we divide the mass by ________.
What is volume?
The ______________ is a system of measurement based on the number 10.
What is the metric system?
The SI unit used to measure the volume of a liquid is a ___________.
What is a liter?
What is used to measure temperature?
What is a thermometer?
To measure smaller masses (less then 1 KG), _______ or milligrams (mg) are used.
What is grams (g)
Water has a density of 1.0 g/cm3. Ice has a density of 0.9 g/cm3. Aluminum has a density of 2.7. ________ will float in water.
What is ice?
In the ______'s, scientists in France developed the metric system.
What is 1790's?
The _______________ method is used to measure an irregular solid. In this method you immerse the object in water and measure how much the water level has changed.
What is the displacement method.
________ and _______ are used to measure time.
What are clocks and watches?
Unlike mass, _________ is a measure of the force of gravity acting on an object.
What is weight?
The density of a piece of metal that has a mass of 66g and a volume of 6 cm3.
What is 11 g/cm3?