Metric System Conversion table 1,000,000,000 = 1 Gm (Gigameter) 1,000,000m = 1Mm (Megameter) 1,000m = 1Km (Kilometer) 1m = 1m meter 1m = 10dm (decimeter) 1m = 100cm(centimeter) 1m = 1000mm (millimeter) 1m = 1,000,000um (micrometer) 1m = 1,000,000,000nm (nanometer

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Megameter 10^6 meters = 1,000 kilometers = 1 megameter The Northeast Pacific

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nanometer How small is a nanometer? Or think of a person that’s 6 feet tall (1,830,000,000 nanometers). A hair from that person’s head is around 50,000 nanometers wide: if you could split that hair into 50,000 separate strands, each would be a nanometer wide. A molecule of DNA is only 2.5 nanometers wide.

Conversions 400m= ______ cm Step  larger to smaller ****** (multiply – right) 400m x 100cm = 40,000cm 1 1m

Conversions 20 cm = ______ m Step  SMALLER TO LARGER **** (DIVIDE) (left) LARGER TO SMALLER (MULTIPLY) (right) 20CM X 1m =.20m 1 X 100cm

1.8 m= _______ mm 6.4 m =_______ cm 15,000 m = _______ km