Measurement Tools
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Vocabulary
Math and Science
Units
100
This tool measures length, width, and height.
What is metric ruler?
100
This equation is how you find the volume of a rectangular solid.
What is length X width X height?
100
This is the curved part of the water in a graduated cylinder that all measurements should be taken from the bottom of
What is the meniscus?
100
If a cube has its length as 2.3cm, this is the volume of that cube.
What is 12.167cm3?
100
These are the units of mass.
What are grams?
200
This tool is composed of 3 scales and is used to determine mass.
What is the triple beam balance?
200
This is the volume of a rectangular prism that has a length of 10, a width of 2, and a height of 1cm.
What is 20cm3?
200
This is the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
200
If the mass of a given solid is 100g and the volume of a given solid is 50ml, this would be the density of this object.
What is 2g/ml?
200
These are the units of volume when a ruler is used.
What are cm3?
300
This tool is used to measure volume of irregularly shaped objects.
What is a graduated cylinder?
300
This is the value of the first balance that you should move on a tripl beam balance.
What is 100 grams?
300
This is how tightly packed or loosely packed the molecules are in an object.
What is density?
300
Use the ruler in slide 3 to determine the cm to the nearest tenth for letter A.
What is .5cm?
300
This is the name for the little lines between the whole numbers on the ruler.
What is tenths?
400
This is the value of the mass shown on the triple beam balance shown in slide 1.
What is 373.1 or 373.2 grams?
400
This is the equation for how to find density.
What is mass/volume?
400
This is the word that describes how much space an object takes up.
What is volume?
400
This would be the volume of a substance that when it is dropped into 50ml of water, the new amount shown on the graduated cylinder is 75ml.
What is 25ml?
400
These are the units for volume when it is found using a graudated cylinder.
What are ml?
500
This is the amount of water displaced by an object shown by the graduated cylinders in slide 2.
What is 3 ml?
500
This is the name of the term used for finding the volume of an irregular-shaped object using a graduated cylinder.
What is water displacement?
500
This is the name of the part of the triple beam balance that is where you place the object.
What is the pan?
500
This is what would happen to an object with a denisty of 1.4g/cm3 when it is dropped into water.
What is sink?
500
These are the two units for density.
What are g and ml or g and cm3?
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