Metric Units Conversions

Which of the following would you use centimeters to measure?

• distance to Temple Middle School

• length of a cell phone

• length of Providence Elementary School

• legth of a classroom

Which of the following measurements is the heaviest?

• 2,948 g

• 2,638 g

• 3 kg

Convert from meters to cm:  9 meters

• 900 cm

• 90 cm

• 0.9 cm

• 0.09 cm

1000 grams = _____ kilograms

• 0.0001

• 1,000,000

• 10

• 1

285 kg = ____ g

• 285,000

• 285

• 2,850

• 28,500

1 L = _______ mL

• 1

• 10

• 100

• 1000

Convert 17 m to cm:

• 0.17 cm

• 0.017 cm

• 1,700 cm

• 170 cm

Convert 300 meters to centimeters:

• 3000 cm

• 0.3 cm

• 30,000 cm

• 3 cn

Convert 8 kilometers to meters

• 800 m

• 80,000 m

• 8,000 m

• .008 m

Convert 5 cm to mm:

• 5,000mm

• 0.5 mm

• 0.05 mm

• 50 mm