Metric System

Conversion table• 1,000,000,000 = 1 Gm (Gigameter)• 1,000,000m = 1Mm (Megameter)• 1,000m = 1Km (Kilometer)• 1m = 1m meter• 1m = 10dm (decimeter)• 1m = 100cm(centimeter)• 1m = 1000mm (millimeter)• 1m = 1,000,000um (micrometer)• 1m = 1,000,000,000nm

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Gigameter

• Gigameter Bill Gates Giganaire

Megameter

• 10^6 meters = 1,000 kilometers = 1 megameter

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Kilometer

Meter

Metric System

• Centimeter

Millimeter

• Millimeter

Micrometer

Micrometer

nanometer

• How small is a nanometer?

• Or think of a person that’s 6 feet tall (1,830,000,000 nanometers). A hair from that person’s head is around 50,000 nanometers wide: if you could split that hair into 50,000 separate strands, each would be a nanometer wide. A molecule of DNA is only 2.5 nanometers wide.

Conversions

• 400m = ______ cm

• Step 1---- larger to smaller ******

(multiply – right)

400m x 100cm = 40,000cm 1 1m

Conversions

• 20 cm = ______ m• Step1------ SMALLER TO LARGER ****

(DIVIDE) (left)

LARGER TO SMALLER

(MULTIPLY) (right)

20CM X 1m = .20m

1 X 100cm

• 1.8 m= _______ mm

• 6.4 m =_______ cm

• 15,000 m = _______ km