Measurement Tools
This instrument tells a pilot how high the airplane is above the ground.
What is an altimeter?
One of these equals 100 centimeters.
What is a meter?
The distance around a rectangle is called its ____.
What is the perimeter?
The root "meter" means this.
What is to measure or measurement?
A device that measures temperature ends with this suffix.
What is -ometer? / Example: thermometer
This tool measures the air pressure and helps predict weather.
What is a barometer?)
One hundredth of a meter is called this.
What is a centimeter?
The straight line through the center of a circle from one side to the other is the ____.
What is the diameter?
A word meaning "limits or factors that affect how something is done" from the list.
What is parameter?
This -ometer measures rotation speed in revolutions per minute.
What is a tachometer?
The dashboard instrument that tells you how fast the car is going.
What is a speedometer?
Ten centimeters make this unit.
What is a decimeter?
If a circle's radius is 4 meters, the diameter is this many meters.
What is 8 meters?
Choose the word that best fits: "A dragonfly's wing might be one ____ wide."
What is centimeter?
The instrument that tells you how many meters per hour or miles per hour you are traveling is called a ____.
This instrument measures the temperature outside.
What is a thermometer?)
A thousand meters equal this unit used for measuring longer distances.
What is a kilometer?
The measurement around the outside edge of a figure is used to find how much fencing you need; this term is ____.
What is perimeter?
Which listed word means "a system that measures things in groups of ten"?
What is metric?
The tool used by scientists to measure properties of light is a ____.
What is a spectrometer?
An instrument that measures light wavelengths and frequencies, often used in science labs.
What is a spectrometer?
This adjective describes systems or units that group measurements by tens.
What is metric?
A pattern where each side looks like a mirror image of the other is described as ____.
What is symmetrical?
This listed noun means "an instrument which measures the working speed of an engine."
What is a tachometer?
This -ometer indicates changes in air pressure and helps forecast weather.
What is a barometer?