Intro to the Class
Beginning Science Concepts
Scientific Notation and Sig. Figs
Units
Hairy Affairs
100

What room is your class held in?

Room 124

100

The 6 steps of the scientific method in order.

What is question, research, hypothesis, experiment, analysis, conclusion?

100

The number of significant figures in the number 0.009140

What is 4 significant figures?

100

Convert 5.4ml to cm3

What is 5.4 cm3?

100

Comets were called this in ancient Greece.

What are "hairy stars"?

200

This makes it unsafe to plug in electrical cords without drying  your hands off.

What is the threat of electrocution?

200

An archer manages to constantly hit around a bullseye, but the arrows are never close together.

This describes what accuracy and precision definition?

What is accurate but not precise?

200

Describe the three types of numbers that are not included in significant figures.

What are counted numbers, defined numbers, and powers of ten?

200

Give the SI Units for the following measurements

Length, Temperature, Time, Mass.

What is meter, kelvin, seconds, and kilograms respectively?

200

This children's toy was originally used as a weapon in the Philippine jungle.

What is a Yo-Yo?

300

This makes it unsafe to pour chemicals back into the main container during a lab.

What is a contamination?

300

Create a hypothesis that explores the relationship between temperature and plant growth.

Answers vary - Ex: "If temperature increases, then plant growth will increase"

300

Calculate the percent error for a student who measured the mass of a Bunsen burner to be 5.7 Dg but whose mass is really 7.3 Dg.

What is 21.92%?

300

Convert 0.0076 Kg to grams.

What is 7.6g?

300

It wasn't until this war that shoes were specified for left and right feet.

What is the Civil War?

400

Describe why it would be unsafe to only hold your hair back when working with an open flame.

What is the loss of one hand for the lab?

400

Define the acronym DRY MIX.

What is dependent, responsive, y-axis and manipulated, independent x-axis.

400

Convert to scientific notation the number 148.01 x 10-2 with 2 significant figures

What is 1.5 x 100?

400

Determine the density of a mason jar that has the mass of 243.8g that changed a waters volume from 100.1ml to 200.9ml.

What is 2.4187 g/ml?

400

The official name for the # or hashtag.

What is an octothorpe?

500

Which day and lunch period do you have pirate block with Ms. Chestnut?

1st: Monday

3rd: Thursday

4th: Friday

500

Determine the independent and dependent variables in the following situation.

A chef determines how long it takes for a steak to move from rare, to medium, to well done over a period of time.

What is the independent variable = time and the dependent variable = doneness of steak?

500

Solve the following equation with appropriate significant figures and report you answer in scientific notation.

[(6.626 x 1013) / (2.21 x 106)] x (1.5 x 10-4)

What is 4.5 x 103?

500

Convert 2.27 km/kg to cm/mg.

What is 0.227 cm/mg?

500

The plural version of a cul-de-sac.

What is a culs-de-sac?