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Metric System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| liter | base unit of volume |
| gram | base unit of mass |
| Kilo | a thousand times the base unit |
| Hecto | a hundred times the base unit |
| Deca | ten times the base unit |
| deci | one-tenth (.1) of the base unit |
| centi | one-hundredth (.01) of the base unit |
| milli | one-thousandth of the base unit |
| meter | base unit of length |
| triple beam balance | an instrument used to measure mass |
| graduated cylinder | an instrument used to measure liquid volume |
| meter stick | an instrument used to measure length |
| length | Distance between two points |
| mass | Amount of matter in an object |
| volume | Amount of space occupied by an object |
| International System of Units (SI units) | a system of physical units based on the meter, kilogram, second, celcius, and kelvin together with a set of prefixes to indicate multiplication or division by a power of ten |
| Density | A measure of mass per unit volume |