Kinds of measurement

1. Kinds of measurement The basic units of measurement are distance, volume, mass, time and temperature.

2. Temperature

3. Temperature ‘critical range of temperature’

4. All living things require their own unique certain range of body temperature for optimal living conditions. Temperature

5. Temperature Chemical reactions occur in living things as well as outside of living things. Most chemical reactions require certain conditions in order to occur. Some chemical reactions need heat to occur. These endothermic reactions leave the products cold to our touch.

6. Temperature Other chemical reactions release heat when occurring. These exothermic reactions give off energy that had been stored in the bonds of the reactants. The energy could be light and/or heat and possibly sound as a byproduct.

7. Time can be measured in: Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millions of years, billions of years

8. Time

9. Months Years Millions of Years

10. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Global Positioning Systems (three points measuring one location) Distance Distance

11. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

12. Distance Situations where you want accurate measurement!

13. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

14. Distance Situations where you want accurate measurement!

15. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance Surveying property lines

16. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

17. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

18. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

19. Situations where you want accurate measurement! Distance

20. Distance Measuring organisms!

21. Distance Measuring organisms!

22. Distance Measuring organisms!

23. Volume Volume (Space taken up) Volume can be measured in two ways, depending on whether the object being measured is regular in shape or irregular in shape.

24. Volume Large, irregular shapes still have a certain volume that is measured in cubic feet or cubic meters.

25. Volume Volume can simply be length x width x height

26. Volume Hot air balloons measure the volume of air as cubic feet..

27. Volume

28. Volume O. C. FISHER LAKE holds 119,200 acre-feet of water at capacity for conservation control

29. Volume Good glassware for measuring.

30. Volume

31. Volume Cubic Meter

32. Parts per million (ppm)Parts per billion (ppb)comparisons

33. 1,000,000 pennies One million pennies stacked closely together, compared to an average man. 1,000,000,000 pennies A billion pennies

34. 1,000,000,000,000 pennies a trillion pennies stacked

35. Click here↓ Use this site to make conversions from the English system to the Metric system. Interactive distance quiz Choose level ‘A’ first, then proceed to level ‘B’ and ‘C’. Temperature quiz A volume quiz

36. Mass What’s the difference between weight and mass?

37. Mass Mass is the same throughout the universe. Weight depends on gravity and mass.

38. Mass The large planets have a stronger pull of gravity. The smaller planets have a weaker pull of gravity.

39. Mass Weight depends on gravity and mass.

40. Mass Mass is a comparison of something to an International standard.

41. Mass Scales of all sorts are used to determine mass.

42. Mass In the course, Biology, the term biomass is used very often. Bio- (life) –mass (weight-like) examines the amount of materials that are currently alive or had been previously alive.

43. Mass All the plants of a forest could actually be removed, dried and massed from the forest.

44. Mass All the vegetarians of the forest could be removed, killed, dried and massed from the forest. Biologists often want to know the plant mass to animal ratio on a piece of property.