1.2 Study Guide

Question 1

What unit is mass measured in?

Answer 1

Grams/ g

Question 2

What unit is volume measured in?

Answer 2

Liters/L

Question 3

What is temperature?

Answer 3

A measure of kinetic energy

Question 4

What is standard deviation?

Answer 4

A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation in a set of data

Question 5

What is the name of the graph that only goes up?

Answer 5

Direct

Question 6

How many decimal places do you move if you start at the base unit to go a miligram

Answer 6

3 places to the left

Question 7

How many 0’s are in a kilogram

Answer 7

3

Question 8

What does length measure?

Answer 8

Distance

Question 9

What variable goes on x axis?

Answer 9

Independent

Question 10

What is a control group?

Answer 10

An experiment that is done on the side that has no independent variable

Question 11

How do you calculate the average?

Answer 11

Add up all data points then divide by the number of data points

Question 12

What is the median?

Answer 12

The number directly in the middle of a data set

Question 13

A group of scientists is a conducting an experiment to find out which cereal do toddlers like most. To measure their likability they are asking them to get the cereals a review from 1 to 5 stars. In this question what is the dependent variable?

Answer 13

The reviews of the toddlers.

Question 14

A group of scientists is a conducting an experiment to find out which cereal do toddlers like most. To measure their likability they are asking them to get the cereals a review from 1 to 5 stars. In this question what is the control variable?

Answer 14

The amount of cereal being given.