Vocabulary
A measurement system used for everyday measurements in the United States
What is the English System?
A unit of length in SI that equals 100 centimeters
What is a meter?
When you describe how close a measured quantity is to a true or accepted value, you are describing its
What is accuracy?
How many meters do you cover in a 10km (10K) race
What are 10,000 meters?
Convert 54 grams to kilograms
What is 0.054kg?
The amount of matter an object contains
What is mass?
Describes how far it is from one place to another
What is length?
Refers to the smallest interval that can be measured
What is a resolution?
Arrange the following intervals of time from shortest to longest: 160 seconds, 2 minutes, 2 minutes 50 seconds
What is 2 minutes, 2 minutes 50 seconds, 160 seconds?
Convert 1,200 meters to millimeters
What are 1,200,000mm?
The international system of units used by scientists worldwide
What is SI?
A ratio that has a value of one and is used when setting up unit conversion problems
What is a conversion factor?
Describes how close together repeated measurements are
What is precision?
Rank these units from smallest to largest: micrometer, nanometer, kilometer, centimeter, meter
What is a kilometer, meter, centimeter, micrometer, nanometer?
Convert 26 decimeters to meters
What are 2.6m?
When someone determines the amount of something using a value and a unit, they are making a
What is a measurement?
The amount of space between two points is measured in units of
What is distance?
Meaningful digits in a measured quantity are known as
What are significant digits?
How many millimeters is represented by 6.7cm?
What are 67 millimeters?
Convert 9 liters to milliliters
What are 9,000ml?
A standard amount, like a kilometer or a gallon, that is used to communicate different quanities
What is a unit?
A method of using conversion factors and unit canceling to solve a unit conversion problem
What is a dimensional analysis?
If the difference between two results is larger than the estimated error, the result is called
What is a significant difference?
Write 3800 seconds is hours, minutes, and seconds
What is 1 Hour, 3 Minutes and 20 Seconds?
Convert 5,283 meters to kilometers
What are 5.283km?