Chapter 2 Practice Test

Which one is not in the metric system?

• Kilometer
• Yard
• Centimeter
• Meter

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

• meters

• kilometers

• Centimeters

• Decimeters

400 cm = _____ m

• 4,000 cm

• 40 mm

• 4 km

• 4 m

What SI Unit is used to measure mass?

• liter

• meter

• gram

• Kelvin

Which of the following represents the smallest prefix of the group?

• milli

• deci

• deka

• kilo

Which number is the metric system based on?

• tens

• ones

• hundreds

• inches, feet, and yards

Convert 6,405 g to milligrams.

• 6405 mg

• 6.405 mg

• 64,050 mg

• 6,405,000 mg

One liter is equivalent to ________ cubic centimeters.

• 1

• 10

• 100

• 1000

The prefix ________ means 1/100.

• milli-

• deci-

• kilo-

• centi-

Mass is the amount of _______ an object has

• Matter

• weight