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Measuring Worksheet

The document provides a comprehensive overview of measuring instruments and their applications, including the measurement of length, mass, force, temperature, and volume. It includes exercises for calculating areas and volumes of various shapes, as well as practical tasks for measuring household items and recording temperatures. Additionally, it covers the conversion of mass units and the calculation of mass for liquids.

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Measuring Worksheet

The document provides a comprehensive overview of measuring instruments and their applications, including the measurement of length, mass, force, temperature, and volume. It includes exercises for calculating areas and volumes of various shapes, as well as practical tasks for measuring household items and recording temperatures. Additionally, it covers the conversion of mass units and the calculation of mass for liquids.

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Measuring Instruments

1.Name the following measuring instruments

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2.Name the measuring instruments required to measure each of these.

Length of a book

Mass of a rock

Force needed to open a door.

Amount of water

Temperature of the body

Volume of a liquid

Width of football pitch

3.What units are the following quantities measured in?

Length

Mass

Force

Time

Temperature

Volume

Electric current

4.What quantity are the following units used to measure?

cm

cm2

cm3

Km

mm

tonne

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Measurement and calculations
1.Write down the length in mm of each of the following object

2.Make a list of 10 items in your house that have metric measurements. Record the
stated mass and units of each. Also include what type of measurement it is such as for
volume, mass or temperature. The first one is done for you.

2. 3. 4. 5.
1.Sugar
1 kg bag
Mass
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

3.Measure and record the length of the following items.

Length of your shoe

Your height

Width of the room

Record the time taken for the following

Estimate time takento boil 100 cm3 of water

Time for a toy car to roll down a ramp

Time for an ice cube to melt.

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Area

5.What is the formula to calculate the area of a rectangular shape?

6.What are the units for area?

7.Calculate the area of the following shapes. Dimensions are in cm.

8.Sometimes it is necessary to estimate the area of irregular shapes such as leaves or


the surface area of a pond. Estimate the area of the following shapes. Each square in
the grid is 1 cm2.

9.A single solar panel is 1.5 m wide and 75 cm high.


Calculate the total area exposed to the sun if 12 of
these panels are placed onto the roof of a building.

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Volume of regular solid

10.What is the formula to calculate the volume of a rectangular box?

11.What units do we record for volume?

12.Calculate the volume for the following rectangular boxes. Dimensions given in cm.

13.A rectangular block has a width of 5 cm, a height of 8 cm and a depth of 2 cm. What
is the volume of the block?

14.A rectangular block has a width of 9 cm, a height of 10 cm and a depth of 5 cm.
What is the volume of the block?

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Volume of Liquids

15.What measurement instrument do we use to find liquid volume?

16.In what units do we record liquid volume?

17.Read the volume of the following liquids

18.What is the meniscus?

19.How does the meniscus affect reading the correct volume?

20.Read the volume of the following liquids taking the meniscus into account.

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Volume of irregular objects

21.Describe how to calculate the volume of an irregular shaped object such as a small
stone?

22. 4 different objects were placed in a graduated cylinder of water in turn. Calculate
the volume of each object. Show your work in each case.

Battery

Nail

Button

Key

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Temperature

23.What instrument is used to measure temperature?

24.What units is temperature measured in?

25.Use a thermometer to record the following temperatures.


Room temperature

Temperature of a cup of tea.

Temperature inside fridge.

26.Calculate the temperature change that occured in each of the following


thermometers.

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Mass

27.What is mass?

28.What are the units used to measure mass?

29.What instrument is used to measure mass?

30.Convert the following masses from g to kg


5100 g 12000 g 750g 20g

31.Convert the following masses from kg to g


2.4 kg 120 kg 0.5 kg 0.04 kg

32.In order to calculate the mass of a liquid a student first calculated the mass of an
empty beaker as shown Calculate the mass of the liquid in the beaker.

33.A 20c coin has a mass of 6 grams. How much would €2.60 in 20c coins weigh?
Show your work.

34.John's pet guinea pig has a mass of 950 grams. Mary's pet rabbit has a mass of
2.1 kilograms. How much more does Mary’s pet weigh than John’s Explain how you
found your answer.

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