Metric Conversions

Question 0

What does mega mean

Answer 0

1,000,000

M

Question 1

What does King Henry Died by Drinking Chocolate Milk mean?

Answer 1

Kilo
Hecto
Deca
BASE
Deci
Centi
Milli

(Excludes Mega and Micro)

Question 2

What does kilo mean

Answer 2

1,000

k

Question 3

What does hecto mean

Answer 3

100

h

Question 4

What does deca mean

Answer 4

10

da

Question 5

What are the base units

Answer 5

Meter
Gram
Liter

Question 6

What does deci mean

Answer 6

1/10

d

Question 7

What does centi mean

Answer 7

1/100

c

Question 8

What does milli mean

Answer 8

1/1,000

m

Question 9

What does micro mean

Answer 9

1/1,000,000

Question 10

What are units?

Answer 10

Standards of measurement for physical quantities that need clear definitions to be useful

Question 11

What is a base unit

Answer 11

Carefully defined and cannot be derived from other units

Question 12

What are derived units

Answer 12

Carefully defined and can be defined from base units

Question 13

What is volume

Answer 13

How much space something takes up

Question 14

Where do the first units date back to and what was their unit of length

Answer 14

Indus Valley Civilization

Cubit

Question 15

What did a system of measurement need to be

Answer 15

1) Clearly defined
2) Reproducible
3) It’s meaning will not change with time
4) Easy to understand and to convert between similar units

Question 16

Who first created the metric system and what did they define the meter as?

Answer 16

The French Academy of Scientists

1/10,000,000 of the distance from Dunkirk to Barcelona

Question 17

What is a nano

Answer 17

1/1 billion time smaller than the unit it precedes

1,000,000,000

n

Question 18

What is a pico

Answer 18

1 trillion times smaller than the unit it precedes

1,000,000,000,000

p

Question 19

What were the problems with the metric system

Answer 19

1) what if the platinum meter bar was stolen

2) too many derived units were being created with the discovery of new entities such as energy and force

Question 20

What did scientists do to the Metric System in 1960?

Answer 20

They renamed it the International System of Units or SI system for short.

Question 21

How was the meter redefined

Answer 21

Distance light can travel in a certain fraction of a second

Question 22

How many base units are there and what are they

Answer 22

7

Meter m Length
Kilograms kg Mass
Second s Time
Ampere A Electric Current
Kelvin K Temperature
Mole mol Amount of Substance
Candela cd Luminous Intensity

Question 23

What were some problems with the SI system?

Answer 23

1) the prefix kilo in kilogram suggested that the gram was the true base unit
2) Many of the base units are not of convenient size

Question 24

What is the equation for volume

Answer 24

L x W x H

Question 25

Which three scales contain absolute zero

Answer 25

Kelvin, Fahrenheit, and Celsius

Question 26

How do you convert Celsis and Kelvin back and forth

Answer 26

C= K - 273

K= C + 273