Transcription of Scientific Notation Test
1 Name:_____Period:_____ Date:_____ Scientific Notation Test This is the multiple-choice section of your test. It is worth 100 points. Read each question thoroughly. Choose the best answer. Answer by filling in the correct bubble on a scan-tron sheet . 1. Write in standard form. A..00637 B..0637 C. 637 D. 63700 2. Which is the best example of a number written in Scientific Notation ? A..5 x 105 B..1254 C. x 10-3 D. x 102 3. 5 x 104 x 102 = A. 2 x 102 B. x 102 C..5 x 106 D. 5 x 106 4. x 10-3 x 2 x 102 = A. x 10-6 B. x 10-5 C. x 10-1 D. x 101 5. x 104 x 103 = A. 1 x 101 B. 1 x 107 C. x 104 D. x 107 6. 3 x 104 + x 105 = A..5 x 105 B. x 105 C. x 105 D. x 109 7. What is x 100 written in standard form? A. B.
2 C. D. 8. What is written in Scientific Notation ? A. x 10-6 B. x 10-5 C. x 105 D. x 106 9. What is x 10-3 written in standard form? A. B. C. D. Name:_____Period:_____ Date:_____ Scientific Notation Test This is the multiple-choice section of your test. It is worth 100 points. Read each question thoroughly. Choose the best answer. Answer by filling in the correct bubble on a scan-tron sheet . 10. The length of the Amazon River in South America is 6, 400 kilometers. What is the length written in Scientific Notation ? A. x 102 km B. x 103 km C. x 104 km D. x 105 km 11. A virus is viewed under a microscope. Its diameter is meter. How would this length be expressed in Scientific Notation ? A. 2 x 10-7 m B. 2 x 10-6 m C.
3 2 x 106 m D. 2 x 107 m 12. A rectangular section of wilderness will be set aside as a new wildlife refuge. Its dimensions are 5 x 105 meters by 4 x 104 meters. Find the area of the land in square meters. A. 9 x 101 square meters B. 9 x 109 square meters C. 2 x 1010 square meters D. 20 x 109 square meters 13. California has approximately 4 x 107 people living in it. The population of the entire United States is approximately 3 x 108 people. About how many times greater is the population of the United States than the population of California? A..75 x 1015 times B..75 x 101 times C. times 14. Which should I use to measure the length of a desk top? A. kilometer B. hectometer C. millimeter D. centimeter 15. The government will give each state the same amount of social security numbers.
4 There are 5 109 available numbers to give in total. How many will be allocated to each state? A. 25 1010 B. 1 108 C. 100,000,000 D. Both B and C Name:_____Period:_____ Date:_____ Scientific Notation Test This is the multiple-choice section of your test. It is worth 100 points. Read each question thoroughly. Choose the best answer. Answer by filling in the correct bubble on a scan-tron sheet . 16. For which value of k is the equation below true? 4,522,800,000 = 10k ? A. 5 B. 8 C. 9 D. 10 17. Since 1993, the global average sea level has risen 10-3 meters per year due to melting glaciers and other factors. Which of the following units is equivalent to 10-3 meters per year? A. kilometers per year B. centimeters per year C.
5 Decimeters per year D. millimeters per year 18. A box contains 5 x 103 paper clips. The mass of each paper clip in the box is 8 x 10-4 kilogram. What is the combined mass of the paper clips in the box? A. 4 kilograms B. 40 kilograms C. 4 x 107 kilograms D. 4 x 10-7 kilograms 19. Which will be the exponent of the common factor when finding the sum of 10-3 and 106? A. 3 B. C. D. 6 20. The coefficient part of a number written in Scientific Notation is between which numbers? A. 1 and 10 B. -1 and -10 C. Both A and B
