Metric Measurement vocabulary
  • 1. The word "kilo" means
A) .01or 1/100
B) 10
C) .001
D) 1000
E) 100
  • 2. The word "hecto" means
A) .001 or 1/1000
B) 1000
C) 100
D) 10
E) 1/100 or .01
  • 3. The word "deka" means
A) 1000
B) 10
C) 1/10
D) 100
E) .01 or 1/10
  • 4. The word "deci" means
A) 100
B) 1000
C) 1/10
D) .001 or 1/1000
E) 10
  • 5. The word "centi" means
A) 1/10 or .01
B) 100
C) 10
D) 1/100 or .01
E) 1000
  • 6. The word "mili" means
A) 1000
B) 1/1000 or .001
C) 10
D) 1/100 or .01
E) 100
  • 7. If you were finding the area of a rectangle that is 1 centimeter by 1 centimeter, what would be the correct label?
A) 2cm2
B) 1cm2
C) 1in2
D) 1ft2
E) 1mi2
  • 8. If you were finding the area of a mile that is 1 mile in length and 1 mile in width, what would be the correct label?
A) 1 mile 2
B) 1 cubic mile
C) 1 boxed mile
D) 1 corner mile
E) 1 km2
  • 9. If you had 1 dekameters, how many meters is that?
A) 1000
B) 1500
C) 150
D) 10
E) 100
  • 10. If you had 300 centimeters, how many meters is that?
A) 3
B) 30
C) 300
D) 30000
E) 3000
  • 11. Tom walked 5 kilometers, how many hectometers did he walk?
A) .05
B) 500
C) 5
D) 5000
E) 50
  • 12. Julie jumped from a starting point. Which distance makes the most sense on the distance she jumped?
A) 300 decimeters
B) 300 kilometers
C) 300 meters
D) 300 dekameters
E) 300 centimeters
  • 13. What measure would it make sense to use to measure the length of a pencil?
A) centimeters
B) meters
C) dekameters
D) hectometers
E) kilometers
  • 14. Jack has a book that weighs 1 hectograms, how many grams is that?
A) 100
B) 1000
C) 1/10
D) 1/100
E) 10
  • 15. Polly had small frog that weighed 500 decigrams. How many grams is that?
A) 5000
B) 1/500
C) 5
D) 50
E) 1/5
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