Base Units & Prefixes
What base unit measures length in the metric system?
Meter
Convert four meters to centimeters
Convert three kilograms to grams.
3,000 g
Convert two liters to milliliters.
2,000 ml
A pencil is eighteen centimeters long. How many millimeters long is it?
180 ml
Which prefix means 1,000 times the base unit?
Kilo
Convert six kilometers to meters
6,000 m
Convert five thousand milligrams to grams.
5 g
Convert eight thousand milliliters to liters.
8 L
Maya's thermos holds one and five tenths liters of water. How many milliliters is that?
1,500 ml
Name the base unit used to measure mass or weight.
Gram
85 cm
Convert four and five tenths grams to milligrams.
4,500 mg
Convert five tenths hectoliters to milliliters.
50,000 ml
Charlie goes apple picking this fall with her family. Each member of her family comes home with a bag of apples that weighs two and four tenths kilograms. There are four members of her family. How many kilograms of apples did they pick altogether?
9.6 kilograms
Which prefix means 1/100th (0.01) of the base unit?
Hecto
Convery three and two tenths meters to millimeters.
3,200 mm
Convert one thousand two hundred grams to kilograms
1.2 kg
3.4 L
Leo ran two thousand five hundred meters. Sarah ran three kilometers. Who ran further and by how many meters?
Sarah ran further by 500 meters
Name the seven prefixes in order from smallest to largest.
milli, centi, deci, base, deci, hecto, kilo
Convert seventy-five meters to kilometers.
0.075
Convert eight hundredths kilograms to milligrams.
80,000 mg
Convert nine thousandths liters to milliliters.
9 ml
A juice box contains two hundred and fifty milliliters. How many juice boxes do you need to equal two liters?
8 juice boxes