Vocabulary
The amount of liquid an object can hold.
What is capacity?
Is 300 liters or 300 milliliters a more reasonable estimate for the capacity of a coffee mug?
What is 300 milliliters
The amount of matter an object has is called_____.
What is mass?
How many meters are in 1 kilometer?
What is 1,000
Lauren lives 0.2 kilometer from Alex. Alex lives three times as far from Colin's house than Lauren's house. How far away does Alex live from Colin?
What is 0.6 kilometer
The measurement of distance between two points.
What is length?
Is 1 liter or 1 milliliter a more reasonable estimate for the capacity of a water bottle?
What is 1 liter?
The mass of a penny is about 1 ____
What is gram?
6 L = ___ ml
6,000
A ribbon is 1 meter long. Jose cut a piece of the ribbon 0.4 meter long. How much of the ribbon is left?
0.6 meter
Millimeter, centimeter, meter, and kilometer are units that are part of the _________ system for length.
What is metric?
An eyedropper holds about 1 _____.
What is 1 milliliter?
The mass of six medium apples is about 1 ______.
What is kilogram
2 kg = ____ g
2,000
Cole has a plastic cup that has 125 milliliters of water in it. He drinks 37 milliliters of the water. How much water is left in the cup?
88 ml
This unit is about as thick as 6 sheets of notebook paper.
What is a millimeter?
What is ml
Is 25 grams a reasonable estimate for the mass of a baseball cap? Explain
What is yes. Explanations will vary.
How many times longer is one kilometer than one meter?
1,000
A table has a mass of 7 kilograms. A chair has a mass of 4,048 grams. What is the total mass in grams of the table and the chair?
11,048 grams
This unit is about the height of a chair.
What is a meter?
What is the best estimate for the capacity of a bathtub?
What is 300 liters
What is a reasonable estimate for the mass of a box of crayons?
What is 100 grams
Mrs. Johnson's house is 7 meters tall. How tall is the house in centimeters?
700 Centimeters
Each sports bag can hold 6 kilograms of equipment. The golf balls have a total mass of 3,402 grams. The hockey pucks have a total mass of 2,932 grams. How many sports bags will be needed to hold the equipment?
2 bags.
6 kg= 6,000 grams; 3,402 + 2,932 = 6,334 g; One bag will not be enough. It can fit into two bags.