Unit Conversions

U.S. Customary

100

6 ft in inches

72 inches

200

15 teaspoons in tablespoons

5 tablespoons

300

100,000 feet in miles (round to the nearest 10th)

18.9 Miles

400

4.8 tons to pounds 

96000 tons

500

40 miles to inches

2,534,400 inches

Metric

100

3 meters to centimeters

300 centimeters

200

1700 milliliters to liters

1.7 liters

300

2.9 kilometers to meters

2,900 meters

400

100 grams to kilograms

0.1 kilograms

500

15 kilograms to milligrams

15,000,000 milligrams

Converting Between Systems

100

10 ft to meters 

3.05 meters

200

11 kilograms to pounds

24.25 pounds

300

8 oz to mL

236.58 mL

400

3 miles to meters 

4828.03 meters

500

1 gallon to liters

3.78 L

Fahrenheit and Celsius

100

32^oF to ^oC

0^oC

200

100^oC to ^oF

212^oF

300

50^oF to ^oC

10^oC

400

23^oC to ^oF

73.4^oF

500

-200^oF to ^oC

-128.9^oC

Trivia

100

What number does the prefix mega- refer to?

1,000,000 (a million)

200

What is the name of the third most common system for measuring temperature, in which 0 degrees is Absolute Zero (the lowest possible temperature)?

Degrees Kelvin

300

Name one of the two countries other than the United States that uses the U.S. Customary System (aka the Imperial System) as their official system of measurements. (Double points for both)

Liberia or Myanmar 

400

Which ancient culture is responsible for the base-60 system that we see in a lot of our time units as well as the degree system for measuring angles?

The Babylonians 

500

A calendar year has 365 days. But how many days does it actually take for the Earth to orbit the Sun? (hint: this is why we have leap years)

365.2422 (365.25 is acceptable as correct)