Scientific Variables
Metric Conversions
Scientific Notation
Significant Figures
Dimensional Analysis
100

Students watched a cartoon either alone or with others and then rated how funny they found the cartoon to be. What is the independent variable?

What is watching the cartoon alone or with others?

100

32 dg = _________ g 

What is 3.2g?

100

Write 86,928 in scientific notation.

What is 8.6928 x 104?

100

How many significant figures does 4390 contain?

What is 3 significant figures?

100

A typical concert last for 3.5 hours, how many minutes is the concert?

What is 210 minutes?

200

Students watched a cartoon either alone or with others and then rated how funny they found the cartoon to be. What is the dependent variable?

What is the rating of how funny they found the cartoon?

200

59 g = _________ dag

What is 5.9 dag?

200

Write 92,090,950 in scientific notation.

What is 9.209095 x 107?

200

How many significant figures does 2.1930 contain?

What is 5 significant figures?
200

How many miles will a person run during a 10km race?

What is 6.21 miles?

300

The more time people spend using social media, the less able they are to express themselves in conversation. What is the independent variable?

What is the amount of time on social media?

300

12 hm = _________ km

What is 1.2km?

300

Write 61,366 in scientific notation.

What is 6.1366 x 104?

300

How many significant figures does 4.0001 contain?

What is 5 significant figures?

300

A family pool holds 10,000 gallons of water. How many cubic meters is this?

What is 40m3?

400

Taking a nap in the afternoon makes people more relaxed and less irritable for the rest of the day. What is the dependent variable? 



What is how relaxed and less irritable people are?

400

7.3kg = ________ dag

730 dag

400

Write 0.0005123 in scientific notation.

What is 5.123 x 10-4?

400

How many significant figures does 3,670,000 contain?

What is 3 sig figs?

400

It takes you 2 weeks of playing time to beat Zelda (Breath of the Wild). How many seconds did you spend playing Zelda?

What is 1,209,600 seconds?

500

Eating breakfast in the morning increases the ability to learn in school. What is the independent variable AND dependent variable?

What is independent variable is eating breakfast in the morning, and dependent variable is ability to learn in school. 

500

4.9 dag = _________ dg

What is 490dg?
500

Sally measured the distance her marshmallow traveled after she launched it from her catapult to be 319cm. She writes her measurement using scientific notation to be 31.9 x 101, why is this incorrect? 

What is the number in front of the decimal must be less than 10. It should be 3.19 x 102?

500

How many significant figures does 678.02400 contain?

What is 8 sig figs?

500

The distance from Barren River Lake to Shogun (in glasgow) is 16.25 miles. How many centimeters is the distance? (in scientific notation)

What is 2.615 x 106 cm?