How Many?
Determining Measurement
Which to use?
Degrees
Terms
100

The number of feet in a yard.

What is 3 feet?

100

The distance around a yard.

What is perimeter? 

100

The best measurement to use for a soccer field.

What are yards?

100

0 degrees

What is the freezing point of water in Celsius?

100

deci

What is the prefix that means one-tenth of a unit?

200

The number of inches in a foot.

What is 12 inches?

200

The floor space in our classroom.

What is area?

200

The best measurement to use for the width of a penny.

What is a millimeter? 

200

212 degrees

What is the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit?

200

The measure of how compact matter is.

What is density?

300

The number of millimeters in a centimeter.

What is 10 millimeters?

300

The amount of space a box takes up.

What is volume?

300

The best metric measurement to use for length of the hallway.

What is the meter?

300

100 degrees

What is the boiling point of water in Celsius?

300

Weight

What is a measure of the amount of gravity on an object?

400

The number of centimeters in a meter.

What is 100 centimeters?

400

The difference in an object's heaviness between the earth and the moon.

What is weight?

400

The best customary measurement to use for the length of a pencil.

What is an inch?

400

The freezing point of water in Fahrenheit.

What is 32 degrees?

400

The measure of the amount of matter of an object.

What is mass?

500

The number of meters in a kilometer.

What is 1000 meters?

500

The difference between the hardness of concrete and cotton-candy. 

What is density?

500

The measurement system scientists use.

What is the metric system?

500

Average body temperature in Fahrenheit.

What is 98.6 degrees?

500

Buoyancy

What is an upward force in fluids that opposes gravity?