Prefixes
1/1,000
Milli-
300 cm = ____ m
3 m
The tool used to find the metric measure of liquid volume or capacatiy
What is the graduated cylinder?
Which is larger, a centimeter or a millimeter?
What is a centimeter?
The number that the metric system based
What is 10?
10
Deka-
52 m = ____cm
5,200 cm
This is the tool used to find distance or length in the metric system.
What a meter stick/metric ruler?
Order from least to greatest: 400 centimeters, 1,000 millimeters, 600 centimeters.
What is 1,000 millimeters, 400 meters, 600 centimeters?
The basic unit for mass
What is gram?
1/10
Deci-
9,900 cm = _____m
99 m
The metric unit of length measurement you would use to measure an ant.
What is millimeters?
The metric unit used to measure the distance from Los Angeles to Baltimore.
What is kilometer?
The basic unit for volume of a liquid
What is the Liter?
1/100
Centi-
11 m = ______ cm
1,100 cm
The length of a school bus would best be measured using this metric unit.
What is the meter?
The metric unit that is about the size of the width of your pinky finger
What is the Centimeter?
The basic unit for length or distance
What is the meter?
1,000
Kilo-
4,300 cm = _____ m
43 m
Claire has a 600 cm-long vegetable garden. What is the length of the garden in meters?
6 meters
The most current name for the metric system.
What is System International/International System of Units (SI)
mass/volume =
m/v=
What is density?