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Hakeem wants to see if the temperature of water affects the amount of sugar that will dissolve in the water. What is his Independent Variable and Dependent Variable?
IV: Temp DV: Amount of Dissolved Sugar
100
What is 0.00000435 in Scientific Notation?
4.35 x 10^-6
100
How many seconds are in 2 hours?
7200
100
What is the Metric prefix that is 1,000,000 times smaller than the base unit?
Micro
100
What is the longest bone in the body? If you don't know the Scientific Name, you can just describe where it is.
Femur (upper leg)
200
Nasirah designs an experiment to see if a new drug improves the ability of mice to complete a maze. She gives 10 mice the drug and 10 mice a placebo (sugar pill). Identify the experimental group and the control group.
IV: Mice with drug DV: Mice with placebo
200
What is 3.5 x 10^5 in Standard Notation?
350,000
200
100 yards is equal to how many feet?
300
200
Nadjy measures the volume of one drop of water. What is one example of a metric unit that she could use to express this value?
Centiliters, Milliliters, Microliters, Nanoliters
200
What animal has the longest gestation period, at about 700 days (almost two years)?
Elephant
300
Hassana wants to see how the height of a ramp affects the speed of a marble. She rolls a small marble down a 5 meter ramp and it has a speed of 10 m/s. She then rolls a large marble down a 10 meter ramp and it has a speed of 8 m/s. Explain why Hassana can't make a valid conclusion based on this experiment.
She is adjusting two variables (height and marble size) at the same time
300
What is 4,104,000 in Scientific Notation?
4.104 x 10^6
300
Amiyah walks at a speed of 20 yards per minute. What is her speed in feet per second?
1 foot per second
300
4,000 grams is equal to how many kilograms?
4
300
Within three years, how old was the oldest person in recorded history?
122 (Jeanne Calment of France, died in 1997)
400
Nayture wants to see if the amount of sunlight affects the growth of a plant. What are two things that she should keep constant during this experiment?
Amount of water, type of plant, type of soil, amount of soil
400
What is 3 thousandths in Scientific Notation?
3 x 10^-3
400
One tablespoon is equal to 3 teaspoons. One cup is equal to 16 tablespoons. How many teaspoons are in two cups?
96
400
53.5 centimeters is equal to how many meters?
0.535 m
400
About how many bacteria are in the average human body? Express your answer in Scientific Notation, and you will be correct if you are within 1 power of 10.
1 x 10^11 100 trillion
500
Briana wants to see how the amount of light affects the growth of a population of bacteria. What is her Independent Variable, Dependent Variable, Control Group, and one constant?
IV: Amount of light DV: Bacteria Growth CG: Bacteria with no sunlight Const: Same type of bacteria, starting amount of bacteria, temperature, etc.
500
An atom is about 1 x 10^-10 meters. A cell is about 1 x 10^-6 meters. Which is bigger AND how much bigger is it? (for example, if Freire is 100 feet tall and your house is 10 feet tall, Freire is 10 times bigger)
The cell is 10,000 times bigger (4 powers of ten)
500
Janay walked 60 yards. Brianna walked 600 inches. Which student walked farther and by how many feet?
Janay walked 130 feet farther than Brianna (180 feet for Janay, 50 feet for Brianna)
500
Bill has a mass of 65 kg. Shamar has a mass of 60,000,000 mg. What is the total mass of the two students in grams?
125,000 (Bill is 65,000 g and Shamar is 60,000 g)
500
Name all 8 planets in order from closest to sun to farthest from sun
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune