Measurement Vocab

3. a fundamental property of materials that relates mass and volume and differs from one substance to another
5. the SI standard unit of mass
7. a unit system commonly used in the United States
8. previously agreed-on quantities used to report experimental measurements
9. the most convenient system of units for science measurement, based on the metric system
10. a measure of space
11. the SI standard unit of time
15. the standard set of units for science measurements, based on the metric system
16. a number that represents the number of times a term is multiplied by itself
17. the non-place-holding digits in a reported measurement; they represent the precision of a measured quantity
18. one part of a number expressed in scientific notation
20. one part of a number expressed in scientific notation

1. prefixes used by the SI system with the standard units
2. the unit system commonly used throughout most of the world
4. a system used to write very big or very small numbers, often containing many zeros, more compactly and precisely
6. a factor used to convert between two separate units
12. a measure of the quantity of matter within an object.
13. a unit of volume equal to 1.057 quarts
14. a visual outline of the solution to a problem
19. the SI standard unit of length