Exponents and units

Drag and Drop

Change 540 milliliters to liters:

540 ml =

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l

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

0.54

540,000

5.4

0.054

Multiple Choice

What unit of measurement is the biggest?

• Millimeters

• Meters

• Kilometers

• Centimeters

Multiple Choice

6.45 cm = __________ mm

• 645 mm

• 64.5 mm

• 0.654 mm

• 6450 mm

Multiple Choice

The unit of measurement used to determine the conversion factor.

• Meters

• Base Units

• Metric System

• Conversion Factor

Multiple Choice

What is the volume of liquid in the graduated cylinder?

• 50 mL

• 4.5 mL

• 45 mL

• 45 L

Multiple Choice

What is the volume of liquid in the graduated cylinder?

• 25 mL

• 24 mL

• 24 L

• 28 mL

Multiple Choice

What is the temperature in degrees Celsius?

• 40 C

• -5 C

• 5 C

• 5 F

Explanation Slide...

The earth is __ times bigger than the moon4

Multiple Choice

A snake slithered 5 feet and an inchworm crawled 50 inches, which critter traveled farther? How much farther?

• the snake by 20 inches

• the worm by 4 inches

• the snake by 10 inches

• the worm by 10 inches

Multiple Choice

Mrs. Thomas made 3 1/2 gallons of tea for the family reunion. she estimates that each of the 17 family members will drink about 3 cups of tea for the day. Did she prepare enough tea for her family? How much does she need or how much does she have remaining?

• Yes, by 5 cups

• No, by 5 cups

Dimension Analysis

• relates similar measurements to difefrent units through a conversion factor

Metric Prefixes

• With SI units, we use standard prefixes

• Prefixes go in front of a word

• Ex: kilogram vs milligram

• SI units are all based off of powers of 10

• So a millimeter is 10x smaller than a centimeter

Multiple Choice

Which of the following metric measurements would be used to measure the length of a football field?

• centimeters

• kilometers

• meters

• millimeters

Multiple Choice

Which of the following represents the measurement for letter D?

• 5.5 centimeters

• 5.3 centimeters

• 53 centimeters

• 5.3 millimeters

Multiple Choice

A unit of mass in the metric system is the:

• centimeter

• gram

• liter

• ounce

Multiple Choice

Which unit would be best to measure the length of a pencil?

• meters

• centimeters

• kilometers

• decimeters