Scientific Tools and Measurement Quiz

What is a description that includes a number and a unit called?

• Measurement
• Estimation
• Calculation
• Observation

Which type of observation is expressed as a quantity or number?

• Qualitative
• Visual
• Descriptive
• Quantitative

What type of information is NOT expressed as a number?

• Numerical
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Statistical

Scientific notation is a method of writing a quantity as a number multiplied by what?

• Ten to a power
• One thousand to a power
• The speed of light
• One hundred to a power

What measures how hot or cold something is?

• Temperature
• Weight
• Volume
• Mass

What tells us how much matter an object contains?

• Volume
• Weight
• Length
• Mass

What measures how long something takes to occur?

• Volume
• Time
• Position
• Length

What describes the location of an object in space?

• Weight
• Mass
• Volume
• Position

What measures how much space something takes up?

• Mass
• Weight
• Volume
• Length

What is the force of gravity pulling on an object?

• Mass
• Density
• Volume
• Weight