Prefixes PPre
1,000,000
What is mega
Units for length?
What is meters
Linear measure
What is length
5 m to cm
What is 500 cm
Error divided by accepted value multiplied by 100
What is percent error
1,000,000,000
What is giga
Units for time?
What is seconds
Amount of space occupied by an object
What is volume
12 dm to Dm
What is .12 Dm
Combinations of base units
What is derived units
1/1,000,000
What is micro
Units for mass?
What is kilograms
Measure of the force of gravity on a mass
What is weight
What is 8000000 mm
How close to accepted value your measurement is
Accuracy
1/1,000,000,000
What is nano
Units for amount of substance?
What is mde
What is mass
4 mm to m
What is .004 m
How close a set of measurements are to each other
1/1,000,000,000,000
What is pico
Units for temperature?
What is kelvin
Measure of the amount of kinetic energy of the particle in matter
What is temperature
12 L to Hl
What is .12 Hl
Ration that compares the mass of an object to its volume
What is density