Vocabulary
SI
What is the abbreviation for International System of units?
The symbol for Kelvin
What is K?
The SI derived unit for volume of a solid.
What is m3? (Will also accept cm3)
Inches, feet, yards, miles
What are imperial units for length?
1 inch equals ___________ cm
What is 2.54?
Another name for the International System of Units.
What is the metric system?
The base unit for distance
What is meter?
The SI derived unit for energy.
What is a joule?
Pints, quarts, gallons
What are imperial units for liquid volume?
There are ______________ ft in one mile.
What is 5,280?
The SI system base.
What is base 10?
The one SI base unit with a prefix
What is the kilogram?
The SI derived unit for force.
Double your points if you can also give the imperial unit for force.
What is a Newton?
(Imperial unit--pound)
There are _______________ seconds in one hour.
What are 3,600?
When making unit conversions the unit one is converting from should __________ __________ leaving only the unit one is converting to.
What is "cancel out"?
Base units
What are one of the seven fundamental units of measurement in the SI system?
The seven SI base units
What are meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole?
The formula to calculate the volume of a cylinder.
What is pir^2h ?
Samuel Clemens' pen name Mark Twain was a term that meant water was this depth.
What is two fathoms?
The number of mg in 4 grams.
What is 4000 mg?
Derived units
What are units of measure in the SI System based on a combination of base units (e.g. speed is m/s)
Advantages of the SI system over the imperial system.
What are
having one unit for each type of quantity instead of multiple
having prefixes to identify the scale of units
having base 10 to make conversions between units easier?
The mL is equal to this unit for solid volume.
What is cm^3 ?
These three length units came to us from the Romans.
What are the inch, foot, and mile?
90 km per hour converted to meters per second
Double your points by also converting 90 km per hour to miles per hour
What is 2.5 m/s?
(What is 55.9--or 56--miles per hour?)