
	Intro: Before you begin Skill 1: Know your distance Skill 2: Know your weights Skill 3: Know your volumes Skill 4: Know your temperatures Skill 5: Know your areas Skill 6: Know your nautical measurements Skill 7: Know how to improvise measures with nearby objects Skill 8: Know your abbreviations Skill 9: Know where to find exact measurements when you need them








	The beauty of the metric system is the ease with which you can move between units of measure. If you want to convert meters to centimeters, just move the decimal two places to the right: 2.65 meters equals 265 centimeters. For meters to millimeters, move the decimal three places to the right: .332 meters equals 332 millimeters. For meters to kilometers move the decimal three places to the left: 4,000 meters equals 4 kilometers.

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Learn2 Convert Measurements (Continued)
Skill 6: Know your nautical measurements

Sailors all over the world use knots to describe wind and craft speed, but they understand these measurements in terms of their respective measurement systems.To know how the other side thinks, see below.

Fathom: In U.S. measurements, a fathom is six feet. In metric terms, it's 1.8 meters. Estimate: 2 meters for every fathom. U.S.: When you think of a fathom, think about being six feet under(!). Metric: The term "fathom" comes from a person's TWO arms outstretched.

Knot: A knot may also be termed a nautical mile, and it's equal to 1.151 miles, or 1.852 kilometers on land. Estimate: one nautical mile is equal to one land mile or two kilometers. Hey, there's "knot" much difference between nautical miles and miles on land.

League: A league is three nautical miles. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea would be just over 69,000 miles on land!

Skill 7