Metric System

Metric System

100

What is the basic unit for distance?

meter

200

What is the basic unit for weight?

grams

300

What is the basic unit for liquid?

Liter

400

What number is the metric system based on?

10

500

What system is the metric system based on?

Our decimal system

Metric System Prefixes

100

Smallest unit

nano

200

Largest unit

Giga

300

hundreds

hecto

400

tenths

deci

500

tens

deka

Density Lab

100

Business or place that gave us our density lab

WPAFB/Wright Patterson Air Force Base

200

What were the 3 spheres made of and what did they do in the cup of water.

wood, cork,steel

steel-sank

wood-float

cork-floated the most towards the top of the water

300

length x width x height=

l x w x h=

volume of geometric bodies/shapes

400

mass/volume = 

m/v=

density 

500

What scientific tool did we use to discover the mass of the bars?

digital scale

Metric System PT2

100

The most current name for the metric system.

International System of Units (SI) 

200

Unit of measure for temperature.

Kelvin

300

Unit of measurement for electric current.

ampere

400

Measurement for amount of substance.

mole

500

Measurement of luminosity

candela

Conversions

100

5 kilograms = _______ grams

5000

200

1 centimeters = _______ millimeters

10

300

15 meters = _______hectometers

.15

400

1 decimeters =           meter

0.10 Meter

500

1 gigameter=                      meters

1,000,000,000 meters