What do you use in the metric system to measure distance?

Answer 1

Well, you can use a meter stick, a metric 'scale' or ruler, a metric pocket tape, a metric electronic distance meter (for surveyors), a GPS receiver in metric mode, a metric micrometer or calipers, and so on.

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Answer 2

Generally we measure the distances in meters and centimeters . before knowing about metric system we know what is metric system?

Metric system:it is also known as SI system but it is called the international system.

Before 1970 this system is known as metric system

In SI system the distance is measured with meters.

Answer 3

The standard unit is the meter.

Depending on the size of the thing you want to measure, fractions or multiples of a meter may produce a more convenient number.

nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter
micrometer = 1 millionth of a meter
millimeter = 1 thousandth of a meter
centimeter = 1 hundredth of a meter
decimeter = 1 tenth of a meter

hectometer = 10 meters
kilometer = 1,000 meters

Answer 4

The metric-based, ISO standard unit of time is the Second (abbrev. s) - that is the only "metric" time unit.

For all day-to-day purposes you still use the familiar minutes, hours, days etc. Those sciences like astronomy, geology and archaeology working in vast time-scales, count in years... often in multiples of sizeable powers of 10.

Answer 5

Metric system to English system conversions vary on measurement type. For example 1.61 km is approximately 1 mile. That's a good conversion. 1 kg is approximately 2 pounds. There are many others, but those are two common ones.

Answer 6

Length is measured in metres.

Fractions of a metre are known as millimetre (0.001m), micrometre (0.000 001m), and nanometre (0.000 000 001m)

Multiples of metres are kilometres (1 000m), the other prefixes for multiples are applicable to metres; mega, giga, tera etc. but are not commonly used.

Answer 7

All distances are measured in metres. For lengths much longer, or shorter, lengths we use prefixes to indicate the fraction or multiple of the metre.

For short lengths the fractions are thousandths, millionths, billionths; for which the prefixes are milli-, micro-, and nano-.

For longer lengths, the multiples are thousands, millions, and billions; for which the prefixes are kilo-, mega-, and giga-.

The prefixes indicate the fraction,or the multiple of the base unit.

Answer 8

In the MKS system, the basic unit of length is the meter. Everything is addressed in subdivisions or multiples of that. So a millimeter is one thousandth of a meter, while a kilometer is one thousand meters.

Answer 9

The metric system is based on units of measurement where units of different size are related to each other by powers of ten (or a thousand). On either side of the base unit these units have prefices for multiples or factors of 10. Beyond a thousand or thousandths, the prefices are for multiples or factors of 1000. The same prefices are used with all basic unit - whether the measurement is of mass, length, volume, force, pressure etc.

There are also many very simple relationships between measures of different attributes. For example, the volume if 1 centimetre cubed is 1 millilitre. Or 1 Newton is the force which will accelerate a mass of one kilogram by 1 metre per second^2. That force, acting over an area of one square metre will exert of pressure of 1 Pascal. And so on.

Answer 10

The first metric system is old of approx. 250 years. Is is a rational and scientific system adopted by the majority of the countries . Only USA and several other territories remain now in the Middle Age.