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A _______ is a quantity that has a magnitude and unit.
physical quantity
A ______ is a comparison of a physical quantity with an appropriate standard or unknit of measurement.
measurement
In the time period 3000 – 1500 BC, the people of the Indus Valley used the ______ to measure the length.
cubit
The _____ was taken to be the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of middle finger.
cubit
A cubit is approximately ____
45.72 cm or 18 in.
For mass, the _____ was the earliest unit of mass.
grain
The Babylonians divided a circle into ____ degrees .
360
The metric system that is commonly used and adopted by many countries around the world is called ____.
International System of Units or (SI Units)
An organization that is established to maintain the SI units.
International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)
______ are divided into base quantities and derived quantities.
Physical Quantities
The basic unit for _______ is meter.
length
The _____ of a square is the square of its side.
area
The volume of an object is the _________.
amount of space it occupies
______refers to the amount of matter in an object.
mass
