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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| metric system | A system of measurement based on the number 10
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| SI | International System of Units.
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| mass | A measure of the amount of matter an object contains
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| weight | A measure of the force of gravity acting on an object
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| volume | The amount of space an object takes up
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| meniscus | The curved upper surface of a liquid in a column of liquid
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| density | A measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume
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| estimate | An approximation of a number based on reasonable assumptions
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| accuracy | How close a measurement is to the true or accepted value
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| precision | How close a group of measurements are to each other
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| mean | The numerical average of the numbers in a list
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| median | The middle number in a list of numbers
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| mode | The number that appears most often in a list of numbers
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| graph | A picture of information from a data table; shows the relationship between variables
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| horizontal axis | A line that runs left to right along the bottom of a graph, on which the manipulated variable (or independent variable) is labeled
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| vertical axis | A line that runs up and down along the side of a graph, on which the responding variable (or dependent variable) is labeled
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| origin | The point where the x-axis and y-axis cross on a graph
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| coordinate | A pair of numbers used to determine the position of a point on a graph
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| independent variable | The variable that is changed on purpose
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| dependent variable | The variable that changes in response to another variable
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| hypothesis | A possible explanation for a set of observations; must be testable
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| controlled experiment | An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time
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| operational definition | A statement that describes how to measure a particular variable or how to define a particular term
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| patent | A legal document issued by a government that gives an inventor exclusive rights to make, use, or sell an invention for a limited time
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| technology | How people modify the world around them to meet their needs or to solve practical problems
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| obsolete | No longer in use
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| prototype | A working model used to test a design
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| engineer | A person who is trained to use both technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
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