Name a unit of length used to measure short distances?
Unit lengths are measurements used to measure length, like inches, feet, and meters. You can use a ruler to measure things in inches, or a yardstick to measure things in feet. You can use a meter stick to measure things in meters, which is a bit longer than a yardstick.
Unit Lengths
Inch - A unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems, equal to 1/12 of a foot. Foot - A unit of length equal to 12 inches, or 0.3048 meters. Meter - The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). One meter is equal to 100 centimeters, or 39.37 inches.
Concepts:
Which unit of length do you prefer to use?
- feet
- inches
- centimeters
- meters
A light year is the distance that light travels in one year and is equivalent to 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometers. The smallest unit of length is the Planck length, which is 1.616199(97)ร10^โ35 meters. The picometer (pm) is one trillionth of a meter, which is 1/1,000,000,000,000th of a meter.
Did you know?
How many inches are in a foot?
What is the longest unit of length?
What unit of measurement would you use to measure the length of a pencil?
What do you think is the most useful unit of length for measuring everyday objects?
How could you use the different unit lengths to help you solve a problem?