Flashcards in Scientific Measurement Deck (21):
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What is the SI Unite of length?
A. Meter
B. Liter
C. Grams
A. Meter
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What is volume of a cube with 10cm on each edge?
A. 1 gram
B. 1 liter
C. 1 meter
B. 1 liter
2
What is the difference between experimental and accepted value?
A. Temperature
B. Density
C. Error
C. Error
3
What is the closeness of the measurement to the TRUE value?
A. Accuracy
B. Weight
C. Density
A. Accuracy
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What is the degree of hotness or coldness of an object?
A. Temperature
B. Weight
C. Density
A. Temperature
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What is the ratio of the mass of an object to its volume?
A. Precision
B. Accuracy
C. Density
C. Density
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What is concerned with the reproducibility of measurement?
A. Error
B. Precision
C. Density
B. Precision
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What is the measure of the pull of gravity on a given mass?
A. Precision
B. Temperature
C. Weight
C. Weight
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How many significant figures are in the measurement 2103.2g?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
C. 5
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What does the metric prefix kilo mean?
A. 100 times smaller
B. 1000 times smaller
C. 1000 times larger
C. 1000 times larger
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What is the metric unit of volume?
A. km
B. K
C. L
C. L
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Which of these measurements is expressed to 3 significant figures?
A. 0.070 mm
B. 7007 mg
C. 7.30 x 10 -5
C. 7.30 x 10 -5
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How many "0" in the measurement 0.000040200 are significant?
A. 7
B. 3
C. 2
B. 3
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- 14* C corresponds with what Kelvin reading?
A. 259 K
B. 287 K
C. -287 K
A. 259 K
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What does the metric prefix milli mean?
A. 1000 times smaller
B. 1000 times larger
C. 100 times smaller
A. 1000 times smaller
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How many significant figures are in the following numbers?
A. 5,600
B. 0.00445
C. 2.4 x 10-6
A. 2
B. 3
C. 2
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Put the following in scientific notation?
A. 402,000,000
B. 0.000708
A. 4.02 x 10 ^8
B. 7.08 x 10-4
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Perform the following operations.
A. 36.47 + 2.721 + 15.1 =
B. (8.74 x 10 9) / (4.2 x 10-6) =
A. 54.3
B. 2.08 x 10 15
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Are zero digits in a measurement significant?
Sometimes
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Does the mass of an object change with its location?
Never
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