Metric Worksheet
Name: ______
Date: ______
Period: ______
1) Write the equivalent measurement:
a) 5 dm = ______m b) 4 mL = ______L c) 8 g = ______mg
d) 9 mg = ______g e) 2 mL = ______L f) 6 kg = _____g
g) 4 cm = ______m h) 12 mg = ______gi) 6.5 cm3 = ______L
j) 7.02 mL = ______cLk) .03 hg = ______dg l) 6035 mm = _____cm
m) .32 m = ______cm n) 38.2 g = ______kg
2. One cereal bar has a mass of 37 g. What is the mass of 6 cereal bars? Is that more than or less than 1kg? Explain your answer.
3. Wanda needs to move 110 kg of rocks. She can carry l0 hg each trip. How many trips must she make? Explain your answer.
4. Dr. O is playing in her garden again She needs 1 kg of potting soil for her plants. She has 750 g. How much more does she need? Explain your answer.
5. Weather satellites orbit Earth at an altitude of 1,400,000 meters. What is this altitude in kilometers?
6. Which unit would you use to measure the capacity? Write milliliter or liter.
a) a bucket ______
b) a thimble ______
c) a water storage tank ______
d) a carton of juice ______
7. Circle the more reasonable measure:
a) length of an ant 5mm or 5cm
b) length of an automobile 5 m or 50 m
c) distance from NY to LA 450 km or 4,500 km
d) height of a dining table 75 mm or 75 cm
8. Will a tablecloth that is 155 cm long cover a table that is 1.6 m long? Explain your answer
9. A dollar bill is 15.6 cm long. If 200 dollar bills were laid end to end, how many meters long would the line be?
10. The ceiling in Jan’s living room is 2.5 m high. She has a hanging lamp that hangs down 41 cm. Her husband is exactly 2 m tall. Will he hit his head on the hanging lamp? Why or why not?
Circle the larger unit in each pair of units.
11. millimeter, kilometer14. centimeter, millimeter
12. decimeter, dekameter15. hectogram, kilogram
13. hectogram, decigram
16. In SI, the base unit of length is the meter. Use this information to arrange the following units of measurement in the correct order from smallest to largest. Write the number 1 (smallest) through 7 (largest) in the spaces provided.
_____ a. kilometer _____ e. hectometer
_____ b. centimeter _____ f. millimeter
_____ c. meter _____ g. decimeter
_____ d. dekameter
Match the terms in Column II with the descriptions in Column I. Write the letters of the correct term inthe blank on the left.
Column I Column II
_____ 17.distance between two pointsa. time
_____ 18. SI unit of length b. volume
_____ 19.tool used to measure lengthc. mass
_____ 20.amount of space occupied by an object d. meter
_____ 21.unit used to express volumee. kilogram
_____ 22. SI unit of mass f. density
_____ 23.amount of matter in an object g. liter
_____ 24.mass per unit of volume h. second
_____ 25.instrument used to measure mass i. length
_____ 26.interval between two events j. balance
_____ 27. SI unit of temperature k. meterstick
_____ 28. SI unit of time l.thermometer
_____ 29.instrument used to measure temperature m. Kelvin
30.Ethan lives at one end of Park Avenue. Brian lives at the other end of the avenue. It is 5.8 kilometers from one end of Park Avenue to the other. If Ethan walks 2.79 kilometers toward Brian's house, how manymetersdoes he have to walk to get there?
31. Devin had the measles and had to stay inside even though he didn't feel very bad at all. He decided to make a cake to surprise his mother. The recipe said he needed four deciliters of milk. How many liters of milk did he need?
32. Aaron and Noah wanted to have a contest to see which of their paper airplanes could fly the longest distance. Aaron's plane flew four meters. Noah's plane only flew seventy-nine centimeters. How much further did Aaron's plane fly?
33. We are driving to Las Vegas. The sign says that it is one hundred forty-five kilometers to Las Vegas. How many meters is it to Las Vegas?
34. Olivia was very cold. She wanted to wear her new jacket with the pink flowers on it. Her mother said that it was negative seven degrees Celsius but that it was going to be eleven degrees Celsius by afternoon. How many degrees would the temperature have to rise to reach eleven degrees Celsius?
35. The miller wants to bake a loaf of bread, but he didn't have any flour. He decided he would grind just enough for eighteen loaves. If it takes one and three-fourths kilograms of flour for two loafs, how much flour will he need?