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Name ____________________________________________ Date __________________ Period ________. T HE M ETRIC S YSTEM.
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Name ____________________________________________ Date __________________ Period ________ THE METRIC SYSTEM The metric system, as your syllabus notes, is the wave of the future. It’s very easy to convert one type of unit to the next, because the whole kit-and-caboodle is based on powers of ten. Below, you’ll see some of the prefixes used in the system, and what they actually mean. In class, we’ll do some conversions to show you just how simple the system really is!
The mass of the earth is 5983 Yg (yottagrams), and it gains another 40 Gg (gigagrams) every year from captured meteorites and cosmic dust