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Metric length

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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METRIC UNITS OF LENGTH

KYLE BELLER, SYDNEY CORPORA AND ALLISON FRY
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2.

MILLIMETER

  • About thickness of a credit card
  • Paper clips, width of eraser, etc.
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3.

CENTIMETER

  • 1cm is equal to 10 millimeters
  • About the length of a fingernail
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4.

DECIMETERS

  • 1/10th of a meter
  • Pencil, books, small animals
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5.

METER

  • Length of guitar
  • 100cm, 1,000mm
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6.

DECAMETER

  • 10 meters, 1,000cm, 10,000mm
  • Our room is about 1.1 decameters
7.

HECTOMETER

  • About same length of a football field
  • 100 meters, 10,000cm 100,000mm
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KILOMETER

  • Same length as the southport bridge in south Australia
  • 1,000 meters, 100,000cm, 1000000mm

Sydney Corpora