Across
- 2. 400 mm = _____________ cm
- 7. There are ____________ cm in 1 meter (no space between words)
- 9. You can find a way to measure a curved path with a straight ruler (true or false)
- 10. When using a ruler, best practice is that you start by lining up the first ___________ mark with the edge of the object you are measuring
- 14. When working with the U.S. Customary System, final fractions should be written in _______________ form
- 15. When measuring a 3-d rectangular object's surfaces you measure the _____________, width, and height
- 17. In 1999, NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere due to an engineer not converting _______________ measurements to metric measurements
- 20. 50 cm = ___________ mm (no space between the two words)
- 21. There are about 2.54 centimeters in one ________________.
- 23. The word given for measurements given for shapes on a drawing
Down
- 1. There are ______________ cm in 1 kilometer (no space between words)
- 3. There are ___________ hatch marks between numbers of inches on a ruler
- 4. The Metric System is based on this number
- 5. The unit of measurement the Ancient Egyptians used to measure length
- 6. In the metric system, ______________ are used, not inches
- 8. Only __________ countries do not exclusively use the metric system.
- 11. 5 12/16 inches simplified is 5 _________ (spell out the fraction and add a hyphen between the two words).
- 12. Most countries use the __________________ System of measurement
- 13. When measuring in inches, final answers are written as ____________ numbers (if the measurement goes past a whole number)
- 16. 3 16/16 inches in simplest form is the whole number _______
- 18. When measuring in centimeters, the final answer is written as a ______________ (when the measurement goes less than, or past the whole number)
- 19. The country where the metric system began
- 22. The country where the Customary System began