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General
100
A system of measurement based on the number 10.
What is metric system?
100
An approximation of a number based on reasonable assumptions.
What is estimation?
100
A picture of your data, can reveal patterns or trends that words and data tables cannot.
What is graphs?
100
When an accident occurs, no matter how minor, who do you do.
What is notify your teacher and listen to their directions?
100
The amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
200
Basic unit of length in the SI system.
What is meter?
200
Refers to how close a measurement is to the true or accepted value.
What is accuracy?
200
Graph used to display data to show how one variable (responding variable) changes in response to another variable (manipulated variable).
What is line graph?
200
The middle number in a set of data, which is listed as greates to smallest or smallest to greatest.
What is median?
200
A measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume.
What is density?
300
Measurement of the amount of matter an object contains.
What is mass?
300
Refers to how close a group of measurements are to each other.
What is precision?
300
A smooth line that refects the general pattern of a graph.
What is line of best fit?
300
The number that appears most often in a list of numbers.
What is mode?
300
Si unit to measure time.
What is second?
400
The basic unit of mass in the SI system.
What is kilogram.
400
A measurement that includes all of the digits that have been measured exactly, plus one digit whose value has been estimated.
What is significant figure?
400
A line graph in which the data points yield a straight line.
What is linear graph?
400
The official SI unit for temperature.
What is kelvin?
500
A measure of the force of gravity acting on an object, you use a scale to measure.
What is weight?
500
Calculations used to determine how accurate, or close to the true value, an experimental value really is.
What is percent error?
500
Line that tells how much y changes for every change in x.
What is slope?
500
When the data points fall along a curve on a graph.
What is nonlinear trends?
500
The numerical avererage, calculated by adding up all of the numbers and then dividing by the total number of items in the list.
What is mean?
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