Physical Science 1.2 Vocab

4. Figure A prescribed decimal that determines the amount of rounding off to be done based on the precision of the measurement.
6. A description of how close a measurement is to the true value of the quantity measured
8. The force with which Earth's gravity pulls on that amount of matter
9. A method of expressing a value as a number multiplied by 10 to the appropriate power
10. A factor that changes in an experiment in order to test a hypothesis
12. The exactness of a measurement

1. The distance between two points, measured in a straight line
2. A measure of the size of an object or fluid in three-dimensional space
3. General process that scientists use to help organize their thinking about questions they want to answer
5. Only one variable changes at a time
7. Measure of the amount of matter in an object
11. A possible answer that you can test