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HOMEWORK 2: DUE July 7 (wed) The Oceans: Monterey Bay, Metric Units and Oceanographic Charts Name ______________________ Date _______________________ YOU MUST SHOW ALL WORK TO RECEIVE FULL CREDIT Activity 1: Metric System and Scientific Notation 1) The Metric System Table 1. Common conversion factors gallons/liters 1 U.S. gallon = 3.8 L yards/meters 1 yd = 0.914 m ounces/grams 1 oz = 28.35 g pounds/grams 1 lb = 454 g miles/kilometers 1 mi = 1.609 km hectares/acres 1 ha = 2.47 acres square miles/acres 1 square mile = 640 acres To convert areas you can square the length units. For example to convert 3 square yards to square meters use the following conversion: 3 yd2 x (0.914 m / 1 yd)2 = 3 yd2 x (0.835 m2/ 1 yd2) = 2.506 m2 Similarly, you can convert volumes by cubing the length units. 1) Convert 5 yd3 to cubic meters. 2) Using the fact that 1000 L = 1 cubic meter, convert your answer in (1) to liters. Table 2. Metric System conversion factors Kilometers/meters 1 km = 1000m Meters/centimeters 1 m = 100 cm Centimeters/millimeters 1 cm = 10 mm Millimeters/micrometers 1 mm = 1000 (m Metric tonne/kilograms 1 metric tonne = 1000 kg Kilograms/grams 1 kg = 1000 g Grams/milligrams 1 g = 1000 mg Cubic meters/liters 1 cubic meter = 1000 L Liter/milliliters 1 L = 1000 ml 3) How many micrometers in a meter? 4) How many grams in a metric tonne? 5) How many liters in a cubic centimeter? 6) How many acres in a square kilometer? 2)Scientific Notation We convert very large or small numbers to scientific notation in order to shorten them and to make them easier to manipulate in expressions. For example: 19,000,000 = 1.9 x 107 0.0000000756 = 7.56 x 10-8 7) Write one billion (1,000,000,000) in scientific notation. 8) Write 276,000,000 in scientific notation. 9) Write 0.00000000602 in scientific notation. We can also use metric prefixes to express num