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1
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the standard measurement system based on units of 10

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metric system

2
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Material or energy that goes into a system

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Input

3
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an action or series of actions that happen within the system

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Process

3
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the material or energy that comes out of a system

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output

4
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Output that changes a system in some way

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Feedback

5
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A group of parts that work together to carry out a function

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System

6
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A representation of an object or a process

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model

7
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the percent difference between the known value or a substance and its measured value

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percent error

8
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data that does not fit with the rest of a data set

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Anomalous data

9
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the numerical average of a set of data

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Mean

10
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the middle number in an ordered set of data

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Median

11
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the number that appears most often in a list of numbers

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mode

12
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the difference between the greatest value in a set of numbers and the least value

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Range

13
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how close the measurement is to the true or accepted value

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accuracy

14
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how close a group of measurements are to each other

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precision

15
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the measure of the amount of matter in an object

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Mass

16
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measurement of the distance from one point to another

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length

17
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the measure of the force of gravity acting on object

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weight

18
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the amount of space taken up by an object or substance

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volume

19
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the measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume

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Density

20
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A line graph in which the data points yield a straight line

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Linear graph

21
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A graph in which the data points do not fall along a straight line

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nonlinear graph

22
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an approximation of a number based on a reasonable assumption

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estimate