Name: ___________________________________ Date: ___________ Period: ____

Bill Nye: Measurement

1. The unit used to measure the diameter of an atom is an _______ANGSTROM____.

2. The word used to describe weight of precious stones is a ______KARAT_______.

3. Whose actual foot was used to standardize the measurement of the “foot”?

__________THE KING________

4. We divided the distance from the North Pole to the equator by 10 million to get the

unit called a _______METER_______.

5. Measuring the length and width together gets you the _____AREA_____.

6. The length, width and height together tell you how much room something takes up

which we call its ______VOLUME_________.

7. A liter of water is exactly one ______KILOGRAM_________.

8. 1000 Liters is equal to a ___TON_____.

9. Every time the arrows cross each other on a hodometer you have covered

_______1 METER_______.

10. The Celsius scale bases 0 degrees on the temperature that water freezes and 100

degrees on the temperature that ________WATER BOILS_______-