1. International System

2. BASIC UNITS Meter: a little longer than a yard (about 1.1 yards) Liter: a little larger than a quart (about 1.06 quarts) Gram: a little more than the weight of a paper clip

3. Symbols in Metrics Metric symbols never have periods: –km, hm, dam, m, dm, cm, mm –kl, l, ml –kg, g, mg These are SYMBOLS – not abbreviations!

4. Width of a door frame 1 m Width of a finger 1 cm Thickness of a fingernail 1 mm A bit more than half a mile 1 km Metric length meters

5. Metric Mass grams A small paperclip 1g about the mass of a textbook 1kg 1/1000 th of a small paperclip 1mg

6. Half of a 2 liter soda 1l 500 2l bottles of soda 1kl 1/5 a teaspoon 1ml Metric volume liters

7. 1ml = 1cm 3 = 1cc

8. Thirty is hot Twenty is nice Ten is chilly Zero is ice Metric Temperature Celsius

10. khdadcm

11. Try these!  48 cm = ____________ mm  3 km = ______________ m  21 l = _______________kl  6.35 g = _____________ mg .7000 l = _____________ ml