LESSON: Measuring Units
Metric 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 |