What is on the Basic Science Test

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What is on the Basic Science Test?

• Remember at this point this test counts 75 of
  your grade.
• So, do well.

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• Scientific Method
• 1. Know the order of ..
• 2. Know parts of an experiment
• a. definition
• b. be able to pick them out given an
  example experiment

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• Examples
• What comes before you perform an experiment.
• When is data collected
• What does hypothesis mean
• What is a theory? A Law?

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• Example
• Randy wants to know if drug y lowers blood
  pressure. So he divides 500 people into 2 equal
  size groups and gives group A a sugar pill and he
  gives group B the drug y. He checks their blood
  pressure 4x daily for a month.
• Whats the I.V., D.V., Control Exp. Groups?

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• Measurement
• 1. Mass
• a. know unit
• b. know what instrument is used to take
  the measurement
• c. know definition
• 2. Volume (dito)
• 3. Density (dito)

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• Examples
• What kind of measurements are the following
  numbers?
• 5.84 cm
• 0.0034 L
• 34 K
• 99 sec
• 234 kilograms
• 393 g/mL

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• Measurement
• 4. Metric Prefixes
• a. know abbreviation
• b. know meaning
• c. know how to convert

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• Examples
• what is the meaning of
• kilo-
• centi-
• milli-
• 0.0003 m _____ mm

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• Lab Safety
• 1. Know all lab safety rules
• 2. Recognize lab safety symbols
• Lab Equipment
• 1. Recognize everything we used thus far.
• 2. Know the units it measured in.

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• Examples
• a beaker measures what?
• a balance measures what?

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• Vocabulary
• 1. Know all of the definitions from page 2 of
  the CPO text
• Pure or Applied Science
• ex. Studying the effects of gravity
• ex. Improving inline skates with new synthetic
  polymer wheels

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• Factor Labeling
• 1. Know how to factor label and demonstrate,
  exactly as shown in class, by solving problems
  and making conversions.

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• Conversions to Memorize
• Remember
• 1 km 1000 m
• 1 kL 1000 L
• 1 kg 1000 g
• For these Ill just use the Meter (m), but all on
  the next slide hold true for the liter, meter,and
  gram.

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• Conversions to Memorize
• 1 tm 1,000,000,000,000 m
• 1 gm 1,000,000,000 m
• 1 Mm 1,000,000 m
• 1 km 1,000 m
• 1 hm 100 m 1 mm 0.001 m
• 1 Dm 10 m 1 um 0.000 001 m
• 1 dm 0.1 m 1 nm 0.000 000 0001m
• 1 cm 0.01 m

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• Conversions to Memorize

2.2 cm 1 inch 1 kg 2.2 lbs 5280 ft 1
mile 12 in 1 foot 60 sec 1 min 60 min 1 hr
1 Kelvin 273 C