Properties
Classifying Matter
Notation/Sig Figs
Conversion/Percent Error
Accuracy/Precision
100

Water freezes.

What is a physical reaction?

100

Sugar and cream dissolved in coffee

What is a homogenous mixture?

100
Amount of sig figs in the number 0.0000607

What is 3?

100

A student took a calibrated 200.0 gram mass, weighed it on a laboratory balance, and found it read 196.5 g. What was the student’s percent error?

What is 1.75%?
100

The following measurements were made to determine the density of a material whose value was, according to the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 1.24 g/mL

Trial #1 1.20 g/mL, Trial #2 1.22 g/mL, Trial #3 1.22 g/mL

What is accurate and precise?

200

Two colorless solutions mix to produce a solid yellow precipitate.

What is a chemical and intensive property?

200

iron filings (Fe)

What is pure element?

200

Write in scientific notation: 638200000

What is 6.382 x 108

200

Convert 96 kilograms(kg) to megagrams(Mg)

What is 0.096?

200

Three values that have been thrown with high precision and high accuracy

Answers will vary.

300

The mass of a sample of sulfur is 14.3 grams.

What is a physical and extensive property?

300

soil

What is heterogeneous mixture?

300

Write in scientific notation: 1654

What is 1.654 x 103

300

A student measured the specific heat of water to be 4.29 J/g · Co . The literature value of the specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g · Co . What was the student’s percent error?

What is 2.63%?


300

The following measurements were made to determine the density of a material whose value was, according to the handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 1.15 g/mL Trial #1 0.95 g/mL Trial #2 1.16 g/mL Trial #3 1.26 g/mL

What is neither?

400

Milk curdles.

What is a chemical reaction?
400

benzene(C6H6)

What is pure compound?

400

Write in scientific notation: 0.000000912

What is 9.12 x 10-7

400

Convert 1.27 grams(g) to kilograms(kg)

What is 0.00127 kg?

400

The following measurements were made to determine the density of a material whose value was, according to the handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 3.75 g/mL Trial #1 4.75 g/mL Trial #2 4.76 g/mL Trial #3 4.74 g/mL

What is precise?

500

The amount of energy required to burn a sample of cellulose is 164 kJ.

What is chemical and extensive property?
500

brass horn

What is homogenous mixture?

500

Amount of sig figs in the number 20.0000607

What is 9?

500

While doing a lab, a student found the density of a piece of pure aluminum to be 2.85 g/cm3 . The accepted value for the density of aluminum is 2.70 g/cm3 . What was the student's percent error?

What is 5.56%?

500

Draw three arrows that have been thrown with low precision and high accuracy.

Answers will vary