Most trees are measured in metres or feet.
Meters and kilometers (thousands of meters) are used to measure length.
kilometers * * * * * You could, but most people would use metres. A normal tree would be 5 to 20 metres in height - 0.005 kilometres to 0.020 km - although some in tropical forests and the giant redwoods are much taller.. General Sherman, the record holder is 83.8 metres in height (0.0838 kilometres).
you would measure a wall in meters
Kilometers
meters
A kilometre is a unit of distance. A square metre is a unit of area. The two units are therefore incompatible.
with a tape measurer
Meters.
Meters
meters
it is a metric form of measurement, equal to 1000 meters
Hold a yardstick perpendicular to the ground, and measure the shadow. Make a proportion, then measure the tree's shadow. Use the proportion to compute.