LESSON: Measuring Units

CHECK Yourself! Unit Conversions

While we primarily use millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers when talking about units of measure, there are other metric units of measure. See if you can take what you learned about metric conversion and the table below to answer question #5.

Metric Unit

Equivalent To

1 millimeter (mm)

10 micrometers

1 centimeter (cm)

10 millimeters

1 decimeter (dm)

10 centimeters

1 meter (m)

100 centimeters

or

10 decimeters

or

10,000 millimeters

or

100,000 micrometers

1 dekameter (dam)

10 meters

1 hectometer (hm)

100 meters

1 kilometer (km)

1000 meters