Physical Science: Unit 1 Player/Coach Activity
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Use a calculator if necessary and write your answers on a separate
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Player A
1. What unit would you use to measure the distance to the moon?
2. What unit would you use to measure the time it takes for a computer to
add 2 + 2?
3. What unit would you use to measure the length of a fly's leg?
4. How many centimeters in 4.5 m? in 14 km?
5. How many mL in 4 cm3?
6. How many significant figures are there in the number 89.000034?
7. How many significant figures in 0.0007720?
8. How many significant figures in 80800?
9. Round the following number to 3 decimal places: 17.09865
10.What instrument would you use to mass a metal block?
11.Would it be appropriate to say that a metal block weighs 87.45g?
12.Complete the following factor label problems:
a. 760mm = _____dm
b. 10m2 = _____cm2 (a drawing may help: the figure is a rectangle 1m x
10m)
c. Given that
2 titches = 1 tad
4 tads = 1 dab
7 dabs = 2 tablespoons
and
8 tablespoons = 1 cup
How many titches in 3 cups? Show the problem
set-up.
13. What is the density of a piece of metal that has a mass of 54.0g and a
volume of 20.0cm3?
Coach B
1. Degrees Celsius or Kelvins
2. 245mL
3. mg
4. g/L
5. 2
6. 11
7. 140m2
8. 23500
9. 363K
10. 3000L
11. 70 yr x (365.25d/yr) x (24hr/d) x (60min/hr) x (72beats/min) = 2.7 x
109 beats
12. distance traveled
13. 180g
Physical Science: Unit 1 Player/Coach Activity
DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PAPER
Use a calculator if necessary and write your answers on a separate
sheet of paper.
Player B
1. What unit would you use to measure the temperature of the room?
2. How many mL in 245 cm3?
3. What unit would you use to measure the mass of an aspirin tablet?
4. What units would be appropriate for the density of oxygen gas?
5. How many significant figures are there in the number 34,000,000?
6. How many significant figures are there in 12,345,600,002
7. What is the area of a room that measures 15.6m by 9.2m?
8. Round the following number to the nearest 10 units: 23499.
9. Convert 90
10. Solve the following factor-label problems.
Convert three cubic meters to liters.
11. If the average person’s heartbeats 72 times per minute, how many
times does the heart beat in 70. years?
12. In a problem involving the distance traveled by car versus gallons of
gas consumed, which is the independent variable?
13. What is the mass of a glass stopper that has a density of 12.2 g/mL
and a volume of 15 mL?
Coach A
1. km or Mm
2. ns
3. mm
4. 450cm, 1,400,000
5. 4
6. 8
7. 4
8. 3
9. 30 cm (We don't know if the 0 in 10cm is precise or not. If it were,
the answer would be 28.)
10.17.099
11. a balance
12. No, weight is Newtons, not grams.
a. 7.6dm
b. 100,000 cm2
c. 3c x (8tbsp/1c) x (7dabs/2tbsp) x (4tads/1dab) x (2titches/tad)
= 672 titches
13. 2.70g/cm3