Thursday, November 8, 2007

length note cards

Opportunity/Strategy for you to Review

Terms

Length: Measures the distance between points.

Meter: Basic unit of measurement length.

Metric System: The International System of measurement,
includes : meters, grams, liters and Celsius.

Kilo: prefix meaning 1000 (1km = 1000 m)

Centi: prefix meaning 1/100 (1m = 100 cm) or (1 cm is .01m)

Milli: prefix meaning 1/1000 (1m = 1000 mm) or (1 mm is .001m)
(1cm = 10 mm) or (1mm is .1cm)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For kilo can you do 1km=.001m

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