What metric unit would you use to measure the weight of a grasshopper?

Answer 1

It depends on what characteristic of the grassshoper you want to measure - its mass, its length, the volume of its chirp, the frequency of its colour. etc.

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To ad to the above by giving the scientifically appropriate units, and in that order, they are:

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For mass, the gramme (g),

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For length, the millimetre (mm)

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For chirp volume, the "deciBel re 20micro-Pascals" or 20dB re 20µPa for short.

(This is often called just the 'deciBel' for shortness, provided the context is clear, as the decibel is a logarithm of a ratio, not a linear unit of a single thing like the gramme or millimetre. It is the standard unit for airborne sounds, related to the 0dB set at the 20 micro-Pascals minimum sound pressure-level audible to humans with fully-healthy hearing. If you calculate our 0dB pressure's linear equivalent, it is a staggeringly tiny 1 / 5000 000 000 of 1 Atmosphere! Don't say you didn't ask... :-) )

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Frequency of chirp: Hertz (Hz)

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Frequency of colour: possibly Hz but light is more often measured in wavelength instead, when it would be the nanometre (nm), where 1nm = 1 X 10^(-9) metres. I am not sure on this point but the choice may reflect (!) the SI definition of the Metre as so-many wavelengths of sodium light; bright yellow, in the middle of our visible spectrum.

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What else?

Walking or flying speed? Metres/second (m/s, sometimes expressed as m.s^(-1) ).

Pity this text editor doesn't include superscripts to allow typing such units properly, so clearly!

Answer 2

You would use the gram to measure the weight of a grasshopper

Answer 3

You would likely use the metric unit of milligrams (mg) to measure the weight of a grasshopper since they are very light insects.

Answer 4

Grams for weight, millimeters for length and width.

Answer 5

It depends on what characteristic of the grassshoper you want to measure - its mass, its length, the volume of its chirp, the frequency of its colour. etc.

Answer 6

feet

Answer 7

gram

Answer 8

Grams

Answer 9

Centimeter

Answer 10

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