Metric System

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Metric System

• (its easier than you think!)

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Easier Because

• Its based on 10s
• Its based on universally found items
• Ex One milliliter is equal one gram of water

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Basic Units (and abbreviations)

• Mass gram (g)
• Distance meter (m)
• Volume Liter (L)
• Time second (s)
• Temperature Celsius (C)

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Prefixes

• These are the words that come before the basic
  units
• They show how much there is
• Example kiloliter would be abbreviated to kL
• Kilo (or k) means 1000
• So, you have how many liters in one kiloliter?

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The ladder method

• Used to convert among prefixes

Kilo (King)
Hecto (Henry)
Deca (Died)
Basic Unit (by)
Deci (Drinking)
Centi (chocolate
Milli (Milk)
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Try these examples

• What is bigger 1000 meters or 1 Kilometer?
• What is bigger 55,000 liters or 56,000,000
  milliliters?
• 100Kg ____G
• 45 m ____Cm
• 45 cm ____m
• 39.67 ms___ s