1.4 Study guide

Question 1

What is the definition of meters?

Answer 1

distance between 2 points

Question 2

What is the definition of mass?

Answer 2

amount of matter in an object

Question 3

What is the definition of volume?

Answer 3

amount of space an object takes up

Question 4

what is the definition of Temperature?

Answer 4

degree of hotness/kinetic energy

Question 5

what is the definition of precision?

Answer 5

how close a series of measurements are

Question 6

what is the definition of accuracy?

Answer 6

how close a measurement comes to its true value

Question 7

what is the unit for mass?

Answer 7

grams

Question 8

what is the unit for volume?

Answer 8

liters

Question 9

what is the unit for length?

Answer 9

meters

Question 10

how do you find the median?

Answer 10

number in the middle when placed in numerical order

Question 11

how do you find the range?

Answer 11

subtract the lowest number from the highest number

Question 12

how do you find the average?

Answer 12

add all the numbers together and then divide by how many numbers there are

Question 13

how do you record measurements pertaining to the device?

Answer 13

by going one digit further to the right on the measurement

Question 14

if your mass was 70 kg on the moon what would it be on the moon?

Answer 14

70 kg

Question 15

above zero degrees the actual number of degrees Celsius for any given temperature is blank the number of degrees Fahrenheit

Answer 15

lower than

Question 16

what is a factor?

Answer 16

factors give a relationship between 2 things

Question 17

what is the prefix for 10 to the 9

Answer 17

giga

Question 18

what is the order of the mertic prefixes?

Answer 18

GMKHMCMMNP