How are length and area measures?

One centimeter is ______ of a meter.

• 1/100

• 1/10

• 1000 times

• 1/1000

The area of a square is 64 square centimeters. What is the length of one of the sides?

• 8 cm

• 16 cm

• 9 cm

• cm2

The U.S.A. is one of ___________ countries that do not exclusively use the metric system.

• three

• twenty-three

• one-hundred- twenty-three

• seventy

What is a term that means the amount used to measure something?

• prefix

• unit

• base

• basic

The metric system is based on units of _______.

• 12

• 10

• 6

• 2

What do you add to a unit to change the size?

• basic

• suffix

• prefix

• add-on

What is the basic unit of metric length?

• centimeter

• kilometer

• yard

• meter

How many meters are in a kilometer?

• 10

• 100

• 1000

• 1/100

How many centimeters are in a meter?

• 10

• 100

• 1,000

• 10,000

One millimeter is _________ of a meter.

• 1/12

• 1/10

• 1/100

• 1/1000