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No And here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you

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by grams are the unit of measurement Not the old

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woman wanted a pinch Your cheeks tell your beauty All

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right graham isn't unit used to measure what and hear

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the essential aunt All right let's not beat around the

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bush The correct answer here is be a gram is

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a unit of mass mass is a measure of stuff

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specifically how much stuff is in a particular object Sure

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we could get fancy and call it matter but the

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fact of the matter is matter is just mad stuff

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Yeah Anyway mass and weight are related but wait depends

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on gravity You're way less on the moon than you

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do on earth Which is why one of our favorite

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diet tricks is space travel but mass stays the same

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regardless of gravity The amount of stuff and an astronaut

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doesn't change just because he's on the move it'll only

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change your binge eating space pizza or something like that

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And because we're nice around these parts and i don't

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want to leave you hanging here The units used to

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measure the other answer choices Wait no it's like christmas

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Came early right Well to measure length we'd use centimeters

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or inches or something like that Volume is how much

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space something takes up We'd use leaders gallons or how

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many space pizza slices fit into our bellies to measure

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that lot of volume there and density is really a

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combination of volume and mass so we've used grams per

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mil a leader or something similar in a measured density

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It's important to get these things right We look at

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the silly if we said it's three kilograms to granny

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shmoop house instead of three kilometer but we're sure granny

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shmoop would forgive us if we messed up We love 00:01:34.035 --> [endTime] you for it honey shmoop be my marguerite

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