My science vocabulary for graphs/measurements
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Observation | the facts you learn by useing your senses and measuring
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| Qualitative observation | describing something using adjectives
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| Quantitative observations | describing something using numbers
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| Frame of Reference | the background you use to make an inference (prior knowledge)
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| Inference | a conclusion based on inferences and usually combined with past knowledge
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| metric system | a system of measurement based on the decimal system
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| Kilo | a prefix with a value of 1000
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| centi | a prefix with the value of 1/100
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| milli | a prefix with the value of 1/1000
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| length | the distance from one point to another
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| mass | the amount of matter in an object
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| volume | the amount of space matter occupies
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| temperature | the average kinetic energy in matter
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| weight/force | push or pull
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| time | (t)
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| speed | distance per unit of time
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| acceleration | the change in spped per unit of time
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| international system of units | the metric system
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| bar graph | used when observations or measurments of variables are not a continuous quantity but are separate categories
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