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meter
 also spelled metre 		PAGE 10
 The International System of Units
is called "SI" (spoken "ess i")

 


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The base unit for LENGTH - Use the symbol m

 

 

A meter is about as long as a 
baseball bat.

 A meter is about as long as a 
baseball bat.		 The height of the handle on a standard door is about
1 meter.

To measure any length, a meter stick or  tape measures accurately without complicated figures or fractions.
Athletic tournaments throughout the world are measured in metric dimensions.

This diving board is
10 meters tall.
An Olympic sized
pool is
50 meters long.

Longer Distances like the height of a mountain can be measured in meters... and so can the length of a bridge.

Smaller Measurements from a meter

1 centimeter
(1 cm)

 Remember, centi is the prefix meaning
1 one hundredth of the base unit meter.
So, 1 one hundredth of a meter (0.01 m)
is simply written 1 cm

Smaller Measurements from a  centimeter

1 millimeter
(1 mm)

milli is the prefix meaning 1 one thousandth (0.001).
So 1 one thousandth of the base unit meter,
 being 1 millimeter is simply written 1 mm

LARGER MEASUREMENT FROM A meter

1 kilometer
(1 km)

  kilo is the prefix meaning1000 times as much.
So, one thousand meters (1000 m)
being the length of 1 kilometer,
is simply written 1 km which is pronounced
"KILL-oh-meet-ur" NOT "kill-AH-mit-ur".


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DID YOU KNOW?
that you can divide
1 meter by exactly
10 equal parts
(10 cm each side)
then make a cube (1000 cmณ) of it to fill with water
and you will find that it contains exactly
1 L (1 litre)
(1000 mL) of water
and is the mass
of exactly
1 kg (1 kilogram)
(1000 g).
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