Metric Prefix
Conversions
Scientific Method
Vocabulary
General
100

kilo - 

What is a thousand base units?

100

72.95 kg >               dag

What is 7,295 dag?

100

Stated as a question

What is a problem?

100

Measurement of the amount of matter in an object

What is mass?

100

Based on the number 10

What is the metric system?

200

Hecto - 

What is a hundred base units?

200

46.5 mm >          dm

What is .465 dm?

200

Explains why you are conducting the experiment

What is the purpose?

200
Measurement of the amount of space something occupies

What is volume

200

Measured in an experiment and goes on the Y-axis of graph

What is the dependent variable?

300

L

What is a liter?

300

82.54 kl >           hl

What is 825.4 hl?

300

Uses If....then....because.....

What is the hypothesis?

300

Using water to measure the volume of a rock

What is water displacement?

300

Observational data made using your senses

What is qualitative data?

400

da -

What is a deka - ?

400

924.3 cm >             M

What is 9.243 M?

400

Data collected through making measurements

What is quantitative data?

400

Measurement of the gravitational pull on the matter in an object

What is weight?

400

A circular graph using percents

What is a pie graph?

500

mm

What is a millimeter?

500

345.76 cg >       dag

What is .34576 dag?

500

Explains why you got the results you did

What is the analysis?

500

Mass divided by volume

What is density?

500

L x W x H

What is the volume equation for a cube?