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Kaelyn Minor - Ch.2
Chapter 2 Flashcards - Kaelyn Minor
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7th Grade
10/01/2018

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Term
Metric System
Definition
A system that is based on the number ten.
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SI
Definition
SI is the international system of units
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Mass
Definition
Mass is measure of the amount of water that an object contains
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Weight
Definition
Weight is a measure of how heavy or light an object is
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Volume
Definition
Volume is the amount of space an object takes up
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Meniscus
Definition
Bottom of the curve of the water whenever you put it inside of a tube
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Density
Definition
Measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume.
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Estimate
Definition
Approximation of a number based on reasonable assumptions
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Accuracy
Definition
How close a measurment is to its actual value
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Prescision
Definition
How prescise an answer to a question is
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Significant figures
Definition
Digits in a measurment
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Percent error
Definition
Something used to measure how acurate or close it is to its true value
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Mean
Definition
Adding up numbers then dividing them by the total number of items on the list
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Median
Definition
Middle number in a set of data
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Mode
Definition
Number that appears most often in a list of numbers
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