Transcript Slide 1

Aim: How can we utilize prefixes
to help quantify data?
Do Now:
Place the following in order from smallest to
largest:
•Millimeter
•Kilometer
•Terameter
•Decimeter
•Micrometer
•Megameter
The answer will be known by the end of the lesson
Fraction
PREFIX
SYMBOL
FRACTION EXAMPLE
pico
p
10-12
picometer (pm)
nano
n
10-9
nanosecond (ns)
micro
μ
10-6
micrometer (μm)
milli
m
10-3 or 1/1,000
milligram (mg)
centi
c
10-2 or 1/100
centimeter (cm)
deci
d
10-1 or 1/10
decisecond (ds)
Multiple
PREFIX
SYMBOL
MULTIPLE EXAMPLE
deka
da
101 or 10
dekagram (dag)
hecto
h
102 or 100
hectometer (hm)
kilo
k
103 or 1,000
kilometer (km)
mega
M
106
megabyte (Mb)
giga
G
109
gigabyte (Gb)
tera
T
1012
terameter (Tm)
Answer to the do now:
1. Micrometer
2. Millimeter
3. Decimeter
4. Kilometer
5. Megameter
6. Terameter
Who got the do now right?
Name____________________________________________________
USING CORRECT UNITS
For each of the following commonly used measurements, indicate its symbol.
Use the symbols to complete the following.
mg milligram
L
cm centimeter
mL
____milliliter
_____
____liter
____
g gram
kg
mm millimeter
km
____kilogram
____
____kilometer
____
m meter
ms millisecond
μg
nm nanometer
____
____
____microgram
____
L
1. Colas may be purchased in two or three ____
bottles.
kg
2. The mass of bowling ball is 7.25 _____
cm
3. The length of the common housefly is about 1 ____
g
4. The mass of a paper clip is about 1 ____
mL
5. One teaspoon of cough syrup has a volume of 5 ____
km /h or 29 ____
m /s.
6. The speed limit on the highway is usually 106.6 ____
m
7. The length of the small intestine in man is about 6.25 ____
nm
8. Viruses such as AIDS, polio and flu range in length from 17 to 1000 ____
mg of calcium to meet the U.S. RDA.
9, Adults require 1,000 ___
ms
10. In a vacuum, light can travel 300 km in 1 ____
μg
11. The mass of a proton is 1.67 x 10-18 ____
nm
12. Blue light has a wavelength of about 500 ____
L
13. One mole of oxygen gas at STP occupies 22.4 ____
μg
14. Myoglobln, a protein that stores oxygen, has a mass of 2.98 x 10-14 ____
L bowl has a mass of about 50
15. Buttery popcorn contained in a large 1 ____
g of fat and about 650 calories.
____
16. The dying comet fragments that continued to batter Jupiter travel at
mm / ___
ms or 130,000 miles per hour.
speeds of about 58,117 ____
kg
17. The human heart has a mass of about 1.05 ____
18. Stand with your arms raised out to your side. The distance from your nose
m
to your outstretched middle finger is about 1 ____
cm
mg and it can jump about 20____
19. The body mass of a flea is about 0.5 ____
high.
20. On a statistical basis, smoking a single cigarette lowers your life expectancy
ms or 10.7 minutes.
by 642,000 ____
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