Vocabulary
Centimeters and Meters
Which is Longer?
Fun Trivia
Word Problems
100

This word means to make an educated guess.

Estimate

100

Which unit would you use to measure a pencil?

Centimeters

100

11 centimeters or 111 meters

111 meters

100

How many legs does a spider have?

What is 8?

100

Jaxon's pencil is 17cm. Elianna's is 9cm. What is the difference between their pencils? 

8cm

200

This is a drawing we use that is like a number bond. It is made up of parts and a whole.

Tape diagram


200

Which unit would you use to measure our Smart Board?

Meters

200

100 cm or 1 meter

They are equal

200

What are the three types of communities we learned about in social studies?

Urban, rural, suburban

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

This is a metric unit of measurement. You might use it to measure things like a pencil, an eraser, or something else you could hold in your hand.

Centimeter

300

The height of a door is about 2 centimeters/meters

What is meters?

300

3 meters or 295 centimeters

3 meters

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

This word means the answer to a subtraction problem.

Difference

400

The height of a bed is about 4 centimeters/meters

What is meters?

400

154 cm or 145 cm

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

This word means the answer to an addition problem.

Sum

500

The length of a pen is about 10 centimeters/meters

What is centimeters? 

500

2 meters or 99 centimters

2 meters

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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