SI Units
This unit of measurement is the SI unit of mass.
What is a Kilogram?
The volume of an object can be determined by this method.
What is submerging the object water and measuring the quantity of displaced water?
This everyday object is approximately 1 meter long.
-How long is _________________ ?
This part of the scientific method is used to detect a subject of interest, directly or indirectly.
What is observation?
How many grams are in a Kilogram?
What is 1000g?
This SI unit is equivalent to the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
What is a meter.
This method of measuring area can be useful when measuring the area of a lake on an aerial photograph or satellite image.
What is a grid method?
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What is dimensional analysis?
Using your hands, show me how much a cubic cm is.
What is (tip of pinky...or other to be judged) ?
The scientific requirement for a hypothesis to a question is that it must have this quality.
What is it must be testable?
What is an experiment can be designed to test if it is unsupported?
What is the prefix for 1/1000000000 of something?
What is nano?
These two SI units are commonly used as a measure of the quantity of heat energy.
What are Celsius and Kelvin?
When measuring the thickness of a sheet of gold leaf, what two physical properties of gold would be useful?
What are mass and density?
This playground method of measuring time can approximate 1 second increments.
What is 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, ...
Most experiments are proceeded with an observation, a question, a hypothesis, and this critical step which determines if the question has been studied before.
What is research?
Who is the character on the chalkboard behind me?
Who is Mr. Frog?
This SI unit for volume was once the definition for the SI unit of mass when measured with water at 3 degrees C.
What is a liter?
If you need to measure a volume of a single drop of water, and you only have a graduated cylinder that has 1 mL graduations, what method can you use to measure a much smaller drop's volume?
Count the number of drops (n) to fill 1 mL and take the recipricol ( 1/n ).
If it is 30 degrees Celsius outside, how would you dress to wait for the bus?
What are light clothes, t-shirt, shorts, etc...?
When communicating the findings of an experiment it is critical that this must be done exactly.
What is reporting an accurate procedure?
There are this many certain digits on a digital scale that reads 2.00 g
What are two certain digits?
This SI unit can be calculated by measuring the length of time the Earth takes to make one full rotation on its axis.
What is Seconds?
This method of indirect measurement might be useful if you were commanded by a king to determine if his crown is pure gold without destroying it. You happen to know the density of gold is 19.3 g/cm^3.
Submerge the crown and measure its displacement, then measure its mass and compare the density.
Without a scale to measure, what could you use to measure a fairly accurate kg of mass?
What is 1 liter of water?
This step of the scientific method results in the scrutiny of other scientists.
What is peer review, or reporting of findings?
There are this many significant digits on a digital scale that reads 2.02 g.
What are 3 sig figs?