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Science Unit 1.1 Primary Data
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- 1Unit 1.1Primary data
- 2Q1. What is data?The term given to all the observations and measurements that can be used to describe something.
- 3Q2. What is quantitative data?Measurements written as numbers with units attached to them.
- 4Q3. What is qualitative data?Data that can only be described in words.
- 5Q4. Where is Mt Kosciuszko?In Sydney
- 6Q5. What is primary data?Data which was collected firsthand
- 7Q6. What is secondary data?Data that comes from the work of other people.
- 8Q7. What are mistakes?Things that can be avoided if a little more care is taken
- 9Q8. What is the difference between errors and mistakes?Mistakes can be avoided, errors can't
- 10Q9. How is parallax error caused?When a measurement is read at a different angle
- 11Q10. What is the best human reaction time?0.11 second
- 12Q11. Explain "tare"Setting an electronic balance to zero
- 13Q12. What is an outlier?A measurement that is different from the rest
- 14Q13. Why is the average measurement the most accurate?It doesn't include mistakes and has evened out all the small errors everyone made in their measurements.
- 15—GOODBYE!!
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- Year 8 Science (Working with Scientific Data) FlashCards sobre Science Unit 1.1 Primary Data, criado por Zannatul Wara Fairuz em 26-04-2017.
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