THE+METRIC+SYSTEM

The Metric System.......... in case you need to review :-) sometimes it is called the international system of units, or SI a system of measurement commonly accepted in almost all countries excluding the USA. The units of measurement are combined with prefixes to determine the length, volume, weight, density, mass, etc. the prefixes are used to indicate general size, and go from VERY VERY large to VERY VERY small. the most common prefixes you will find are those in the middle range of size. they are, from largest to smallest, KILO HECTA DECA BASIC UNIT (just the unit of measurement, no prefix, for example: meter, gram, or liter.) DECI CENTI MILLI there are more such as mega, micro, or nano (yeah, like the ipod,) and easy way to remember those main prefixes is this sentence: Kilts Help Dudes Become Un-Dumb, Cool, and Married or, in case you prefer something less strange: Kids Have Dropped Over Dead Converting Metrics (O=one's unit) some units of measurement that you should know are meter=length gram=mass liter=volume •density=mass/volume---something cool: when an objects density, m/v is > 1, then the object will sink. if the density is < 1, the object will float

Many other suffixes can be added to metric prefixes, so feel free to add your own to this list here ohm=electrical resistance joule=work volt=electric force

another measurment also part of the metric system is the temperature scale, Celsius. time is measured the same way as in our system, with seconds, minutes, and hours.


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