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section 2
measurement
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is measurement? | measurement is a way to discribe the world with numbers. |
| _______ can help you make a rough measurement. | Estimation |
| what is precision? | Precision is a desciption of how close measurements are to each other. |
| when you caompare a measurement to the real, actual, or accepted value, you are discribing ________. | accuracy |
| To avoid con fusion., scientist established the international system of units, or ____. | SI |
| The _____ is the SI unit for length. | meter |
| what is volume? | the amount of space an object occupies |
| the _____ of an object measures the amount of matter in the object. | mass |
| What is the SI unit for mass? | kilogram |
| ______ is the measurement of force. | Weight |
| Temperature is measured in SI with the ____ scale. | Kelvin |
| A ____ is the amount of change of one measurement in a givin amout of time. | rate |
| What displays infomation in rows and colums so that it is easier to read and understand? | table |
| A _______ is used to colect, organize, and summarize data in a visual way. | graph |
| A ____ shows the relationship between two variables. | line graph |
| What uses rectangler blocks, or bars, of varing sizes to show the relationships among variables? | bar graph |
| A _____ shows the parts of a whole. | circle graph |