Grade 11 Science: Unit Conversions
A worksheet for Grade 11 science students to practice unit conversions, including metric and imperial systems, and scientific notation.
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Grade 11 Science: Unit Conversions
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Read each question carefully and convert the given units as required. Show all your work for full credit. Use appropriate significant figures in your final answers.
1. To convert from kilometers to meters, you would by 1000.
2. The SI unit for mass is the .
3. One inch is equal to centimeters.
4. Scientific notation is used to express very large or very small numbers concisely, typically in the form a x 10^b, where 'a' is a number between 1 and .
1. Convert 750 milliliters (mL) to liters (L).
2. A car travels at a speed of 60 miles per hour (mph). Convert this speed to meters per second (m/s). (Hint: 1 mile = 1609 meters, 1 hour = 3600 seconds)
3. The density of gold is 19.3 g/cm³. What is this density in kg/m³?
1. Which of the following is the correct conversion factor to change kilograms to grams?
1 kg / 1000 g
1000 g / 1 kg
1 g / 1000 kg
1000 kg / 1 g
2. The number 0.00000056 in scientific notation is:
5.6 x 10^7
5.6 x 10^-7
0.56 x 10^-6
56 x 10^-8
1. When converting units, it is important to ensure the units cancel out correctly.
True
False
2. Significant figures are not important when performing unit conversions.
True
False
1. A pharmaceutical company needs to produce 500 kg of a drug. If the drug costs $150 per pound, how much will it cost to produce this amount of the drug? (Hint: 1 kg = 2.20462 pounds)