The Metric System
1 mL of water has a mass of 1 g. What is the mass of 0.3 mL of water?
0.3 g
1 m = _______ cm
100 cm
A patient must take 50 mg of a medication three times a day for seven days. What is the total amount of medication that will be needed for all seven days?
1050 mg
Given that 1 mL of water weighs 1 g, how much would 200 mL of water weigh
200,000 mg
A patient takes 300 mg of a medication twice per day for six weeks. How many grams will be needed?
25.2 g
Which of the following is equivalent to 3 mm?
3000 µm 0.3 cm 0.003 m 0.000003 km
4000 hl = ________ liters.
400,000 liters
0.05 kg = ________ dg
500 dg
50 cg = ________ mg
500 mg
A dog has a mass of 8 kg. This is the same as _____________
80000 dg
A cell sample weighs 896 mg. This is the same as
896,000 kg
Which of the following statements is TRUE? There are ten decigrams in a milligram. Ten thousand microliters are in a decaliter. A millimeter is one millionth of a kilometer. A meter is one hundred thousand millimeters. A nanosecond is one hundredth of a microsecond.
A millimeter is one millionth of a kilometer.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
There are one thousand microliters in a milliliter.
Which of the following shows metric prefixes in the correct order from largest to smallest?
kilo-, deca-, milli-, micro-
The basic metric unit for measuring length is a(n):
meter
Which is the correct order of the prefixes from SMALLER to LARGER?
nano- < micro- < milli- < centi-
0.1 µg = ________ dg
0.000001
0.05 dg = ________ kg
0.000005 kg
50 cm = ________ km
0.0005 km
1 liter = _______ kl
0.001 kl
4000 g = _________ Mg
0.004 Mg
30 mL = ________ L
0.03 L
The metric units for measuring volume are
Liters