Metric System

(it’s easier than you think!)

Easier Because:

It’s based on 10’s It’s based on universally found items Ex: One milliliter is equal to one gram of

water

Basic Units (and abbreviations) Mass: gram (g) (the amount of matter in something) Distance: meter (m) (the length between two points) Volume: Liter (L) (the amount of space something

takes up) Time: second (s) (how long an event takes to

happen) Temperature: degrees Celsius (°C) (the average

speed of the molecules in something)

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?

The ladder method

Used to convert among prefixes:

Kilo (K)

(King) Hecto (H)

(Henry) Deca (da)

(Died) Basic Unit

(by) Deci (d)

(Drinking) Centi (c)

(chocolate Milli (m)

(Milk)

Try these examples:

100Kg= ____g 45 m= ____cm 45 cm= ____m 39.67 ms=___ s What is bigger: 1000 meters

or 1 Kilometer? What is bigger: 55,000 liters or 56,000,000

milliliters?