Chapter 12 - Metric Measurement

Metric Units of Length

100

What is the best estimate for the length of a kayak? 

A. 6 Centimeters

B. 2 Meters

C. 6 Meters

D. 2 Kilometers

What is B. 2 Meters? 

200

The Length of a sunflower seed. 

a. 90 cm

b. 90 mm

c. 9 mm

d. 9 cm 

What is c. 9 mm 

300

22cm = ______ mm

What is 220 mm? 

400

_______ m = 7 km

What is 7,000 km? 

500

Mrs. Dayton's house is 7 meters tall. How tall is her house in centimeters? 

What is 700 centimeters? 

Metric Units of Capacity

100

The Capacity of a Fish Tank: 

30 mL or 30 L 

What is 30 L?

200

The capacity of a baby's bottle would be measured in _______________. 

What is milliliters? 

300

________ mL = 17 L

What is 17,000 mL? 

400

Tyler needs 3 liters of iced tea for a picnic. How many milliliters of iced tea does he need? 

What is 3,000 milliliters? 

500

Kelsey has 5 liters of water. How many milliliters of water does she have? 

What is 5,000 milliliters? 

Metric Units of Mass

100

The Mass of a Tool Box: 

30 grams or 30 kg? 

What is 30 kg? 

200

Aerie bought a large bag of peanuts at a baseball game. Is it more reasonable to say that the mass of the peanuts is 1 gram or 1 kilogram? 

What is 1 gram? 

300

11 kg = __________ g

What is 11,000g?

400

_________ g = 19 kg

What is 19,000g? 

500

Joey is packing books into boxes. The mass of one of the boxes is 20 kilograms. If the box holds 10 books that each have the same mass, what is the mass of each book in grams? 

What is 2,000 grams? 

Problem Solving

100

There are three lines. The first line is 3 times as long as the second. The second line is 4 meters longer than the third. The third line is 2 meters long. How long is the first line? 

What is 18 meters? 

200

Egor has 5 coins that total .62. What are the coins? 

What is 2 quarters, 1 dime, and 2 pennies? 

300

Noelle is in a relay race with three other runners. Each runner runs 0.1 kilometer. What is the total distance run by all four runners? use the number line. 

What is 0.4 km? 

400

Angelo's bathtub is clogged. He has to empty 30 liters of water by hand. Angelo has a 3-liter, a 4-liter, and 5-liter bucket. If Angelo carries two buckets each trip, what combinations of sizes allow him to empty the bathtub in exactly four trips?

What is 5L+3L, 5L + 3L, 3L + 4L, and 3L + 4L?

500

Anabel has 0.21 of a dollar. How many combinations of coins could she have? 

What is 9 combinations? 

Solving Measurement Problems

100

Jake has a plastic cup that has 125 milliliters of water in it. He drinks 37 milliliters of the water. How much water was left in the cup? 

What is 88 mL? 

200

One insect is 47 millimeters long. Another insect is 3 centimeters long. What is the total length in millimeters of the insects? 

What is 77mm long? 

300

You have three pictures frames. Each has a mass of 0.2 kilograms. What is the total mass of the three picture frames? 

What is 0.6kg? 

400

Nico drank 1 liter of water during soccer practice. He drank 2,000 milliliters of water during the soccer game. How many milliliters of water did he drink during the practice and the game? 

What is 3,000 milliliters? 

500

McKenna walked a distance of 2 meters. Farris walked a distance of 300 centimeters. Which student walked the farthest? How much farther? 

What is Farris? What is 100cm or 1 meter?