he International System of Units
is called "SI"
and is the metric system used in America.
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The base unit
for LENGTH is
meter
also spelled metre
Use the symbol
m
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This 22 kilogram salmon
is about 1 meter long
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A meter is about as long
as a
baseball
bat. |
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A meter can be the length of an
average
persons long step. |
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The height of the handle
on a standard door is about
1 meter
from the floor. |
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If a dime is about
1 millimeter
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then 1000 dimes placed side by side
would be |
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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.
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This diving board is
10 meters
tall.
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An Olympic sized pool is
50 meters long.
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Longer Distances like the height of a mountain can be measured in meters... 
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and so can
the length of a bridge
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or a waterfall.
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Smaller
Measurements from a meter |
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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
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Smaller Measurements from a centimeter
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Remember, 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
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LARGER
MEASUREMENT FROM A meter
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Remember, kilo
is the prefix meaning
1000 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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