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14 Cards in this Set
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What system of measurement is used in the United States? |
English System |
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What system of measurement is used in the rest of the world? |
The metric system
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Which system of measurement do scientists use?
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Metric system
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Mass
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Amount of matter in an object
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Temperature
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The average kinetic energy of the molecules
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Distance
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How close or far in object is from another object
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Volume
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Amount of space occupied by an object
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Time
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Non spatial continuum in which events occur in irreversible succession
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The horizon
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The line that separates land and water from the sky
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Weight
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The pull of gravity on the a mass
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Circumference
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Distance around the outside of a circle
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Diameter
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Distance across the circle through the center
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Radius
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Distance from the center to the outside of a circle
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Percent of error
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A calculation of how accurate your measurements are
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