| Term | Definition |
|---|
| 12 | 
inches in a foot |
| 46 | 
inches in a yard |
| 63,360 | 
inches in a mile |
| 5,280 | feet in a mile |
| 1,760 | yards in a mile |
| 16 | cups in a gallon |
| 256 | tablespoons in a gallon |
| 2 | quarts in a gallon |
| 16 | cups ina gallon |
| 4 | pints in a gallon |
| 5 | ounces in a tablespoon |
| 128 | ounces in a gallon |
| 2,000 | lbs in a ton |
| 100 | centimeters in a meter |
| 1,000 | meters in a kilometer |
| 100,000 | centimeters in a kilometer |
| 1,000 | milliliters in a liter |
| 1 | cubic centimeters in a milliliter |
| 1,000 | grams in a kilogram |
| 1,000 | milligrams in a gram |
| 1 | grams in a milliliter of water |
| 1,000 | kilograms in a ton |
| 1 | grams in a cubic centimeter of water |
| 1 | kg in a liter of water |
| 1,000 | liters in a cubic meter |
| 1,000,000 | milligras in a kilogram |
| 1,000 | liters in a kiloliter |
| 1 | decimeters cubed in a liter |
| feet | 3 ______ = 1 yrd |
| ounce | 1 ______= 2 tblspoons |
| kelvin | it is 100degrees below Celcius ex. 290 kelvin= 390 Celcius |
| temprature | measures amount of kenetic energy in atoms based on movement of atoms. |
| T | tera |
| trillion | 10 tt2p = tera = ______ |
| G | Giga |
| billion | 10 tt9p = Giga= _____ |
| M | mega |
| million | 10tt6p = mega=________ |
| K | kilo |
| thousand | 10 tt3p = kilo=______ |
| X | base |
| D | deci |
| 1/10 | 10 tt-1p =Deci=_____ |
| C | centi |
| 1/100 | 10 tt-2p =centi=_______ |
| M | mili |
| 1/1000 | 10 tt-3p =mili=_____ |
| measurment | gives things contact |
| 2 | spans in a cubit |
| 3 | handbreadths in a span |
| 4 | shelkles in a talent |
| weight | shekels and talent are measurments of _______ |
| 3,000 | talent=_______ shekels |
| 75 | talent=_____ pounds |
| consistency | there is no ________ in our system, there is no PATTERN |
| independently | they were ______ figured out |
| system | it is not a ________ |
| system | where different parts work together |
| big small | ____ and ____ numbers are difficult to use |
| fractions | "half" way that our system doesnt work |
| variance | the characteristics of varying |
| prezison | signifigant digits |
| mile | comes from the roman army |
| 1793 | when french got tgthr and made the metric system |
| metric | used everything based on the nmber 10 |
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