Capacity
Estimating
Measuring Liquid Volume
Volume Word Problems
Volume Facts
100

Measured in liters or milliliters?


mL
100
Estimate which object has a bigger capacity: a bathtub or a bowl of soup?

Bath tub

100


What is the volume?

3 liters

100

Aden has 3 liters of water. Tripp has 2 liters of water. How many liters do they have all together?

5 liters

100

What is the abbreviation for milliliters?

mL

200

Measured in liters or milliliters?


liters

200

Estimate which object has a smaller capacity: a water bottle or a medicine dropper?

medicine dropper

200

What is the volume?


500 mL

200

For Sophia's birthday party she makes 8 liters of fruit punch. If her classmates drink 5 liters of the fruit punch, how much will she have left?

3 liters

200

What is the abbreviation for liters?

L

300

Measured in liters or milliliters?


milliliters

300

About how much water could an average fish tank hold?

A. 5 liters

B. 5 milliliters

C. 50 liters

D. 500 liters

A. 5 liters

300

What is the volume?


300 mL

300

Emily is painting her room. She buys 15 liters of paint and pours the paint equally into 3 buckets. How many liters of paint are in each bucket?

5 liters

300

How many milliliters are in a liter?

1000

400

measured in liters or milliliters?


liters
400

If this cup has 200 mL of water, estimate how much water it needs to be full.

about 100 mL

400

What is the volume? (in mL)


75 mL

400

A.J. has a total of 20 mL of vanilla. Each cake needs 4 mL of vanilla. How many cakes can he make?

5 cakes

400

Capacity is....

 ...how much a container can hold

500

Measured in liters or milliliters?


liters

500

Estimate the volume of a cup of coffee.

a. 50 liters

b. 500 milliliters

c. 50 milliliters

d. 5 liters

b. 500 mL

500

What is the volume? (in mL)


38 mL

500

Fiona is filling up a 40 liter tub with water. If she is using a 5 liter jug to add water to the tub, how many times will she need to refill her jug to fill up the tub entirely?

8 times
500

Volume is...

the amount of space a liquid takes up