Metric Prefixes

Question 1

What are the top 5 prefixes?

Answer 1

Yotta, Zetta, Exa, Peta, Tera.

Question 2

Other five

Answer 2

Giga, Mega, Kylo, hecto, deka.

Question 3

What do the represent (Prefixes)?

Answer 3

They represent the value of 10 to the power of an exponent starting from 24 and then decrease.
10^24, 10^21, etc. When reaching 3, they decrease one by one.

Question 4

Each prefix is represented by its first letter, but there are some exceptions, which preixes are they?

Answer 4

deka-da, micro-(greek m).

Question 5

What is the standard of a meter?

Answer 5

The lenght of the path travelled by light in a vaccum during 1/299,792,458 of a second.

Question 6

What is the standard of a second?

Answer 6

The time chat elapses during 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation produced by the transition between 2 levels of the cosium 133 atom.

Question 7

What is the standard of a kilogram?

Answer 7

The mass of a liter of water.