Vocabulary/Formulas
What is the volume of an object?
The volume of an object is the amount of space it takes up or occupies.
Volume is measured in _______ units.
cubic
A rectangular prism measures 5 cm by 2 cm by 3 cm. What is its volume?
30 cubic cm
The base area of a rectangular prism is 10 ft. The volume is 810 cubic ft. What is the height?
81 ft.
What is a rectangular prism? (Hint: name at least 2 characteristics of a rectangular prism!)
A rectangular prism is a 3-D, solid figure, whose faces are include rectangles and or squares and all edges meet at right angles.
If each edge of a cube is 1 inch long, you would measure the volume in_____________.
cubic inches
A cube has an edge measuring 9 inches. What is its volume?
729 cubic inches
The height of a rectangular prism is 8 cm. The area of its base is 16 square cm. What could be the measurements of the length and width (give all whole number possibilities)?
1 cm x 16 cm, 2 cm x 8 cm, 4 cm x 4 cm
What is a cube?
A cube is a rectangular prism whose faces are all squares/all sides are equal.
Surface area is measured in ______________ units.
square
A rectangular prism has a length of 7 cm, a width of 4 cm, and a height of 5 cm. When flipped on its side, the height is now 4 cm. What is the volume of the prism?
140 cubic cm.
A rectangular tank has a base area of 25 squared meters. It contains water to a depth of 7 meters. Find the volume of water in the tank.
175 cubic meters
True or false: I can multiply the area of one face of a rectangular prism by its height to find the volume.
true
1 mL= _________ cubic cm
1 cubic cm
A cube has a volume of 64 cubic centimeters. What is the AREA of the base of the cube?
16 square cm.
A rectangular tank measuring 20 cm by 10 cm by 10 cm is filled with water to the brim. If 1L of water is poured out from the tank, what will be the height of the water level left in the tank?
5 cm
What is the formula for finding the volume of a rectangular prism?
V=l x w x h
1 L = ___________ cubic centimeters
1,000 cubic centimeters
A rectangular prism measures 7 in by 8.5 in by 2.5 in. What is its volume?
148.75 cubic inches
A cube has a capacity of 1,000 mL. What is the length of one edge of the cube (in cm)?
10 cm