Metric Conversion: A useful chart of units

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Size Descriptor

Mass

Mass

Volume

Distance

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Big

Kilogram
[kg]

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Kilolitre [kl]

kilometre [km]

1000

10 3

1.0E+03

metre

1.00E+00

millimetre [mm]

1/1000

10 -3

1.00E-03

1/1,000,000

10 -6

1.00E-06

Middle
Small

Gram

[g]

Milligram
[mg]

mole
millimole
micromole
[ mole]

Litre

[L]

millilitre [ml]

micrometre
[m]

Smaller

Microgram
[g]

Even Smaller

Nanogram
[ng]

nanolitre [nl] nanometre [nm]

1/10 9

10 -6

1.00E-09

Really Small

Picogram
[pg]

picolitre [pl] picometre

1/10 12

10 -6

1.00E-12

Metric Conversion Questions:

1 A barbell and set of weights weigh 75 kg.

microlitre [l]

[pm]

a] How many mg is that?

b] How many g is that?

7.50E+07
7.50E+10

2 You drink 4,000,000 l of Gatorade during a run.

a] How many millilitres is that?

b] How many litres is that?

4.00E+03
4.00E+02

3 It takes you 54,000 milliseconds to run 400 meters.

a] How many microseconds is that?

b] How many seconds is that?

5.40E+10
5.4E+01

a] How many moles is that?

0.000000652

Concentration Questions:
5 "Puck-bobbing" is the newest game for incoming students. You drop two dozen hockey pucks
into a 10 litre barrel of your favourite beverage. How many pucks/litre of beverage do you have?

2.4

4 You weigh out a quantity of NaCl equal to 652 moles.

6 A "fitness expert" tells you that the best drink to consume during a marathon is one which

is a glucose solution made to a concentration of 300 mg glucose/L water.

a] You have 0.6 g of glucose. How many litres can you make?
b] If you only have 50 mg of glucose, how many mls of solution can you make?

2
166.6666666667

7 Convert the following:

a] 466 mg glucose/L blood = _____ mg/ml blood

b] 0.08 mg alcohol/100 ml blood = _____ g/100 ml blood
c] 0.08 mg alcohol/100 ml blood = _____ mg/ ml blood
d] 0.08 mg alcohol/100 ml blood = _____ g/L blood

0.466
80000
0.0008
0.000008

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Lactic
Acid
released
[mg]

Hours spent during the day

1st year 4th year
sleep
10
6
tv, talk, et
4.5
0
future
0.25
5
party
6
1
class
3
3
phys
0.25
9
TOTAL
24
24

Graph # 1

Graph # 2

glycogen [mg/g muscle]

Graph # 3

Muscle glycogen as a function of exer

50
45

f(x) = - 12.05x + 44.7

R = 0.9949635974

40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
0

0.5

1.5

Time [hrs]

2.5

function of exercise time

2.5

3.5

Hours
0
0.25
0.75
1
1.25
1.75
2
2.5
3

mus glyc lactic acid

45
2.5
25
15
31.5
12
7
22
4.5
8
2.5

50
45

f(x) = - 12.05x + 44.7

R = 0.9949635974

40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
0

0.5

1.5

= - 12.05x + 44.7
0.9949635974

Column C

0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5