Flashcards
data
Cards in this deck (18)
- 1What is data?The term given to all observations and measurements that can be used to describe something.
- 2Give some examples of Data...Your height, weight, hair colour, skin and eye colour.
- 3What are the types of data?Qualitative and Quantitative
- 4What is quantitative data?Measurements written as numbers with units attached to them.
- 5What is qualitative data?Can only be described as words
- 6examples of quantitative data- coordinates
-height
-average temperatures - 7examples of qualitative data-hair colour
-skin colour
-rock type
-names
-fowers - 8what is primary datadata that you or your team personally find out by running your own experiments, surveys and fieldwork
- 9what is secondary data?data that comes from the work of other ppl
- 10what are mistakes?things that can be avoided if you take a little more care.
- 11What are errorssmall and unavoidable variations that occur naturally in measurements.
- 12parallax errorread the information at a slight angle, your eye cannot judge exactly
- 13reading errorwhen u have to estimate a marking of a measurement
- 14instrumental errorsinstrument may be faulty and never give the right reading
- 15human reflex errorur quickest reaction time to something
- 16zero errorwhen electronic balance isnt set to zero
- 17tarewhen u set an electronic balance to zero
- 18—
Information
- Description
- Flashcards on data, created by Fatima Syeda on 24/06/2019.
- Created by
- Fatima Syeda
- Views
- 0
- Rating