In order to receive full credit each of your lab reports MUST include a purpose, summary, detailed answers to the lab questions which demonstrate your understanding of the concepts as well as a conclusion that summarize the lab and specifically addresses the lab’s learning objectives and relate them back to the data or observations collected in the lab.

Purpose: Briefly state the learning objective of the assigned lab in two sentences.
This assignment is for us to understand how to convert basic measurements. It is important to know how other parts of the world calculate temperature and other measurements so that we are on the same page and are able to communicate with each other.

Summary: Detail and explain what was observed during the lab activity; this answer should be approximately one paragraph in length. …show more content…
For example, in Cuba they use Celsius to describe weather. In other parts of the world other measurements are used. It is important to become familiarized with converting volume, weight, temperature, and other necessary things Biologist need to know.

Lab Answers - Complete Tables 1.1-1.7

Table 1.1. Metric measurements and uncertainties.
Please note, the items to measure have been updated; these items differ from the Lab manual. meters cm mm inches Uncertainty Δ
The length of your toothbrush .203 2.03 203 8 +/-.2
Length of your index finger .762 7.62 76.2 3 +/-2
The length of a pencil .1524 15.24 152.4 6 +/-0.2
The width of your thumb’s fingernail .127 1.27 12.7 .5 +/-.2
The width of a ruler .254 2.54 25.4 1 +/-.2
The circumference of your calf. 4.57 45.7 457 18 +/-.2
The circumference of your head 5.84 58.4 584 23 +/-.1

Table 1.2. Head volume and uncertainty estimates.
Circumference
(C) Uncertainty in
Circumference
(ΔC) Head Volume

≈ 1/59 C3 Uncertainty