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Measuring Our World
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Measuring Our World
Help plan a mini outdoor adventure. Read each question carefully and include units in your answers. Use Australian metric units.
1.Ruby-Mae wants to find the length of a pencil, the mass of a backpack and the amount of water in a bottle. Name the best tool for each job.
2.Which unit is most suitable for measuring the distance of a 12-kilometre bike ride?
- millimetres (mm)
- centimetres (cm)
- metres (m)
- kilometres (km)
3.Match each measurement to the unit that makes the most sense.
- Mass of a strawberry
- Capacity of a drink bottle
- Length of a walking track
- Height of a door
- metres (m)
- grams (g)
- millilitres (mL)
- kilometres (km)
Item
Measurement
Quantity measured
Creek crossing
850 m
distance
Water container
1.5 L
capacity
Food pack
2 kg
mass
4.The creek crossing in the measurement log is 850 m. How many centimetres is that? Remember: 1 m = 100 cm.
5.The water container holds 1.5 L. How many millilitres is this? Remember: 1 L = 1,000 mL.
6.The food pack has a mass of 2 kg. How many grams is that? Remember: 1 kg = 1,000 g.
7.The team walked three sections measuring 0.6 km, 450 m and 750 m. Use the number line to help order these distances from shortest to longest. Write each measurement with its unit.
8.The team walks 1 km 250 m in the morning and 800 m in the afternoon. What is the total distance in metres?
9.A container holds 2 L of water. The team uses 650 mL. How much water remains, in millilitres?
10.A student says a full school backpack has a mass of 4 g. Is this a sensible measurement? Explain what unit would be more suitable and why.
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