Helping You Understand Metric Prefixes

How many grams in 4.5 Kg?

How many Km is 10400m?

What is the exponent for the prefix μ micro?

Which is largest?

• 1000 micrometers

• 1 cm

• 0.5 Km

• 1 METER

What dose the prefix Giga mean?

• Memory

• Billion

• Hundred

• Thousand

Match the biggest to the smallest from the choices given.

• mg

• small

• Kg

• Biggest

• μg

• Middle

• Mg

• Smallest

• Base Unit (g)

• big

How may mL in 1.75 L

• 175

• 1750

• .175

• .00175

How many cm in a m?

How many mm in a m?

Which way do I move the decimal if I am converting from Km to m?

• To the left. ←

• To the right. →

• Up.

• Any direction.