Customary Units of Capacity
Metric Units of Capacity
Units of Mass
Units of Weight
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100
How many pints are in a gallon?
What is 8.
100
Name a metric unit that would be best to measure the capacity of Emily's bottle of eye drops.
What is milliliters.
100
What tool would Taryn use to measure the mass of an orange?
What is a pan balance.
100
How many ounces make up one pound?
What is 16 ounces.
100
Aaliyah has 7 packs of Skittles. Each pack weighs 9 oz. What is the total weight of Aaliyah's Skittles?
What is 63 oz.
200
Would a fish tank hold 1 pt or 1 gal of water?
What is 1 gal.
200
Is the capacity of Abbi's baby sister's jar of baby food more or less than a liter?
What is less than a liter.
200
Auri wants to know the length of her pencil. What tool would Auri use to measure her pencil?
What is a ruler.
200
2,000 pounds is another name for what?
What is 1 ton.
200
Korbin has a water bottle that has a capacity of 500 mL. Korbin brought a full water bottle to school and drank 235 mL during lunch. How much water is left?
What is 265 mL.
300
What would Landon measure a dog dish in, cups or gallons?
What is cups.
300
Would a juice box more likely hold 250 mL or 250 L of juice?
What is 250 mL.
300
Would Josh's football more likely have a mass of 4 g or 400 g?
What is 400 g.
300
Name two items that weigh at least one ton.
What is a car/buffalo.
300
Ava has a pair of earrings that weigh 9 grams. Sydney has a pair of earrings that weigh 16 grams. Whose earrings weigh more? How much more?
Who is Sydney's earrings, by 7 g.
400
Which measurement best describes the capacity of a glass of apple juice, 1 cup or 1 gallon? Explain.
What is 1 cup. 1 gallon is the size of the entire jug of apple juice, and 1 cup is much smaller.
400
Chloe has 2 liters of water and wants to fill a household container with it. Name a container Chloe can fill.
What is a bucket/large mixing bowl/fish tank.
400
What unit would Merrya want to use to measure the mass of an elephant?
What is a kilogram.
400
Do small objects always weigh less than large objects? Use examples to explain your thinking.
What is no. A small rock could weigh more than a large beach ball.
400
Taylor is baking chocolate chip cookies. Each batch calls for 8 oz of chocolate chips. Taylor has put 64 oz of chocolate chips in a bowl. How many batches of cookies is Taylor baking?
What is 8 batches.
500
Juan has two gallons of chocolate milk. What are three other ways to write two gallons?
What is 4 pints, 8 cups, and 4 quarts/8 quarts/32 cups.
500
Haylie said a washing machine holds exactly 1 liter of water. Is she correct? Explain why or why not.
Haylie is incorrect. A washing machine is large, so holds many liters of water.
500
Would Sydney want to measure the mass of her headband in grams or kilograms? Explain.
What is grams. Grams is smaller and a headband is a small object.
500
Explain why Travis should weigh his bicycle in pounds rather than ounces.
Travis should use pounds because a bicycle weighs more than a pound. It would take too many ounces to weigh the bicycle.
500
Savannah's little sister has a small bath tub she uses to play with her toy ducks. Savannah filled the bath tub with 9 gallons of water.The tub has a capacity of 15 gallons. How many more gallons can Savannah put in the tub to fill it?
What is 6 gallons.
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