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METRIC SYSTEM
Introduction to metric units.
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| meter | basic unit of length |
| liter | basic unit of volume |
| gram | basic unit of mass |
| degree Celsius | unit of temperature |
| second | unit of time |
| newton | unit of force |
| International System of Units (SI) | other name for the metric system |
| unit prefixes | make units larger or smaller |
| centi | 1/100th or 0.01 |
| milli | 1/1000th or 0.001 |
| kilo | 1000 |
| micro | 1 millionth |
| nano | 1 billionth |
| mega | 1,000,000 |
| deci | 1/10th or 0.1 |
| mass | measure of the amount of matter in an object |
| volume | measure of the amount of space something takes up |
| length | measure of distance |
| weight | how an object's mass is affected by gravity |
| temperature | measure of average particle motion(kinetic energy) |
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