Metric System

Metric System

100

What is the base unit for distance?

meter

200

What is the base unit for mass?

grams

300

What is the base unit for liquid volume?

Liter

400

What number is the metric system based on?

10

500

What is the base unit for volume of a solid?

cubic meters

Metric System Prefixes

100

means thousand

kilo

200

means hundredth

centi

300

means one thousandth

mili

400

means billion

giga

500

means trillionth 

pico

Conversions

100

100 cm = 1 _____

1 meter

200

10 mm = 1 ______

1 cm

300

1000 m = 1 _________

kilometer

400

100 meters = 1 ________

1 hectometer

500

1 million meters = _____________

1 Megameter

Measuring

100

Grams is a measurement of ______

mass

200

Meters or kilometers are a measurement of ___________

length or distance

300

Milliliters is a measurement of _________________

Liquid volume

400

m³ is a measurement of ____________

the volume of a solid

500

To measure the volume of an irregularly shaped solid, one could use ________ _______ instead of measuring the length, width, and height of each part separately and adding.

water displacement

Grab Bag

100

3 barley corns = _____

1 inch

200

Your Google Drive data will be limited to _______

10 GB

300

Most bacteria are measured in micrometers or nanometers.  The largest bacteria ever found was 1 _______

cm

400

The size range of visible light is 400-700_______

nanometers

500

Jupiter is 778.3 ______ from the sun

Gigameters