1: The Metric System of Measurement Last updated Save as PDF Page ID 24128 Ellen Genovesi, Laura Blinderman, & Patrick Natale Mercer County Community College Learning objectives To apply the metric system to the measurement of weight, distance, volume, and temperature. 1.1: Universal Standards 1.2: Metric System Prefixes and the Metric Ladder 1.3: Measuring Distance 1.4: Measuring Mass 1.5: Measuring Volume 1.6: Measuring Temperature 1.7: Exercises