Measurement Vocabulary
Centimeters or Meters?
Which is Longer?
Fun Trivia
Word Problems
100
To make an educated guess

What is estimate?

100

To measure a pencil

What is cm? 

100

11 centimeters or 111 meters

What is 111 meters?

100

How many legs does a spider have?

What is 8?

100

A cricket jumped 5 cm forward and 9 cm back, and then stopped. If the cricket started at 23 cm on the ruler, where did the cricket stop?

What is 19 cm?

200

When measuring with a centimeter cube, you must move your cube over so that the mark is right at the beginning of the cube with no 

What is overlap?

200

To measure the length of a train

What is meter?

200

100 cm or 1 meter

None. They are equal

200

According to the Dr. Seuss book, who stole Christmas?

What is The Grinch.

200

An ant walked 12 cm to the right on the ruler and then turned around and walked 5 cm to the left. His starting point was 11 cm. Where is the ant now? 

What is 18cm?

300
The marks on the ruler

What is hash marks?

300

The height of a door is about 2 centimeters/meters

What is meters?

300

3 meter or 295 centimeter

What is 3 meter? 

300

In which continent is the country of Egypt found?

What is Africa?

300

Bill throws his beanbag 5 meters, which is 2 meters farther than Samantha threw her beanbag. How far did Samantha throw her beanbag? 

What is 3 meters? 

400

All the measurements we use to estimate length are called 

What is mental benchmarks? 

400

The height of a bed is about 4 centimeters/meters

What is meters?

400

154 cm or 145 cm

What is 154 cm?

400

What is a brontosaurus?

What is a  dinosaur?

400

A ladybug crawled 7 cm forward and 4 cm back and then stopped. If the ladybug started at 18 cm, where did the ladybug stop?

What is 21 cm?

500
To repeat a process over and over again. When we use our cm cube and the place, mark, slide it over method. 

What is iteration?

500

The length of a pen is about 10 centimeters/meters

What is centimeters? 

500

2 meter or 99 centimter

What is 2 meter?

500

Great Whites and Hammerheads are what type of animals?

What is sharks?

500
Jesse's tower of blocks is 30 cm tall. Sarah's tower is 9 cm shorter than Jesse's tower. What is the total height of both towers?

What is 51 cm?

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