Potpourri
Vocabulary
Significant Figures
Metric System
Scientific Notation
100
The SI base unit for length
What is meter?
100
a unit defined by a combination of base units
What is derived unit?
100
How many significant figures are in the following number? 0.0043840 cm
What are 5 significant figures?
100
prefix that means 1000
What is kilo?
100
This is determined by counting the number of times you moved the decimal place to get a number between one and ten
What is the exponent?
200
the SI base unit for temperature
What is kelvin?
200
the amount of mass per unit volume
what is density?
200
How many significant figures are in the following number? 10235.0 mg
What are 6 significant figures?
200
Convert 5.7 g to milligrams
What is 5700 mg?
200
This should be done before adding and substracting numbers in scientific notation
What is make the exponents the same?
300
SI base unit for electric current
What is ampere?
300
how close a measured value is to an accepted value
What is accuracy?
300
What is the number of significant figures in the following? 9.00 m
What are 3 significant figures?
300
the order of the metric prefixes, from largest to smallest
What is giga, mega, kilo, hecto, deka, base, deci, centi, milli, micro, nano, pico?
300
This is done when multiplying numbers in scienitific notation
What is multiply the numbers and add the exponents?
400
You live 6 km from school. How far is that in meters?
What is 6000 m?
400
Daily Double: how close a series of measurements are to one another
What is precision?
400
How many significant figures are in the following number? 0.00050
What are 2 significant figures?
400
convert 30 mg to g
What is 0.03 g?
400
This is done when dividing with numbers in scientific notation
What is divide the numbers and subtract the exponents?
500
Double Jeopardy Solve the following: a. 2.0 x 10^5 * 3.0 x 10^4 b. 3.0 x 10^9 / 1.5 x 10^7
What is a. 6.0 x 10^9 b. 2.0 x 10^2
500
digits reported in a measurement that include all known numbers and one estimated number
What are significant figures?
500
What is the number of significant figures in the following sentence? I have 15 mangoes that are ready to eat.
What is 2 significant figures?
500
convert 60000 m to km
What is 60 km?
500
Solve the following: 3.0 x 10^9 / 1.5 x 10^7
What is 2.0 x 10^2