1. Kinds of measurement The basic units of measurement are distance, volume, mass, time and temperature.

2. Temperature

3. ‘critical range of temperature’ Temperature

4. All living things require their own unique certain range of body temperature for optimal living conditions. Temperature

5. Chemical reactions occur in living things as well as outside of living things. Most chemical reactions require certain conditions in order to occur. Some chemical reactions need heat to occur. These endothermic reactions leave the products cold to our touch. Temperature

6. Other chemical reactions release heat when occurring. These exothermic reactions give off energy that had been stored in the bonds of the reactants. The energy could be light and/or heat and possibly sound as a byproduct. Temperature

7. Time can be measured in: Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millions of years, billions of years

8. Time

9. Months Years Millions of Years

10. Global Positioning Systems (three points measuring one location) Distance Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

11. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

12. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

13. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

14. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

15. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance Surveying property lines

16. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

17. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

18. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

19. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

20. Measuring organisms! Distance

21. Measuring organisms! Distance

22. Measuring organisms! Distance

23. Volume (Space taken up) Volume can be measured in two ways, depending on whether the object being measured is regular in shape or irregular in shape. Volume

24. Large, irregular shapes still have a certain volume that is measured in cubic feet or cubic meters. Volume

25. Volume can simply be length x width x height Volume

26. Hot air balloons measure the volume of air as cubic feet.. Volume

28. O. C. FISHER LAKE holds 119,200 acre-feet of water at capacity for conservation control Volume

29. Good glassware for measuring. Volume

31. Cubic Meter Volume

32. Parts per million (ppm) Parts per billion (ppb) comparisons

33. One million pennies stacked closely together, compared to an average man. 1,000,000 pennies 1,000,000,000 pennies A billion pennies

34. 1,000,000,000,000 pennies a trillion pennies stacked

35. Click here↓ Use this site to make conversions from the English system to the Metric system. Interactive distance quizInteractive distance quiz Choose level ‘A’ first, then proceed to level ‘B’ and ‘C’. Temperature quiz A volume quiz

36. What’s the difference between weight and mass? Mass

37. Mass is the same throughout the universe. Weight depends on gravity and mass. Mass

38. The large planets have a stronger pull of gravity. The smaller planets have a weaker pull of gravity. Mass

39. Weight depends on gravity and mass. Mass

40. Mass is a comparison of something to an International standard. Mass

41. Scales of all sorts are used to determine mass. Mass

42. In the course, Biology, the term biomass is used very often. Bio- (life) –mass (weight-like) examines the amount of materials that are currently alive or had been previously alive. Mass

43. All the plants of a forest could actually be removed, dried and massed from the forest. Mass

44. All the vegetarians of the forest could be removed, killed, dried and massed from the forest. Biologists often want to know the plant mass to animal ratio on a piece of property. Mass