Metric system

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Kilo 1000

Hecta 100

Deka 10

BASE UNIT 1 Most commmon ones or most important ones

Deci 1/10

Centi 1/100

Mili 1/1000

The 3 main base units are: Liter is the volume of 1 cubic centimeter.

Meter- Length

Liter- Volume

Gram- Mass

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In the late 1700s, The french academy of sciences set out to make a simple and reliable measurement system.

Over the next 200 years the metric system was formed.

This system is now the International system of Unit (SI)

Because all the the SI units are expressed in multiples of 10, changing from 1 unit to another is easy.

Prefixes are used to express SI units that are longer or smaller than basic units , such as meter, liter and gram.

CONVERSIONS:

1000 m- 1 km 6. 2m - 200cm 11. 5mL = 0.005 L

1000km - 10,000m 7. 2cm - 0.02m 12. 10 mL = 0.010 L

1000cm - 1 m 8. 2km - 2000m 13. 10 L = 10 000 mL

1000m - 10,000cm 9. 2mm - 0.2 cm 14. 24 cL = 0.24 L

1000m - 1000m 10. 2mm - 0.000002 15. 24 cL = 0.24 L

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2 mt- 200cm

2 cm- 0.02mt

2 km- 2000m

2 mm- 0.2cm

2mm- 0.000002 km

2 gr- 0.002kg

2 kg- 2000g

2 mg- 0.0002g

2 kg- 2000g

2 cg- 0.02g

5mL to L

10 mL to L

10 L to mL

525 L to mL

24 cL to L