Measurement & Elapsed Time Study Guide

1. Measurement & Elapsed Time Study Guide • Suzann put a pineapple, which has a mass of 1 kilogram on one side of the pan balance. She wants to balance it and she is using 20 gram pieces. How many 20 gram pieces does she need to balance the scale? • _______________ • Directions: Choose the best estimation below. • 2. A bicycle weighs about 15 (grams / kilograms). • 3. A lemon weighs about 58 (grams / kilograms) • 4. A swimming pool has a capacity of about 1,000 • (milliliters, liters) • 5. A tea cup has a capacity of about 200 (milliliters / • liters) • 6. Jake and Sam were running a race. Jake ran 327 meters. Sam ran 571 meters. • a. How much farther did Sam run than Jake? • ___________ • b. What distance did Jake and Sam run altogether? • _____________ • 7. Sarah’s mom is getting ready to give her son a bath. Her faucet is broken so she has to transfer water from the sink to the bathtub. She wants to fill the tub with 10 liters of water. She is using a 50 milliliter cup. How many times does she need to fill the cup? • ______________ • 8. What is the volume of the liquid in the graduated cylinder below? • ________________ • 9. Sarah arrived at school at 9:30 a.m. She had a doctor appointment that lasted 45 minutes. It took her 15 minutes to drive to the doctor’s office. What time that morning did she leave her house? • 10. Jesse gets out of school at 4:00 and goes immediately to track practice. It took Jesse 10 minutes to get to practice, 15 minutes to get home, and practice lasted for an hour. What time does Jesse arrive home? 11. What is the difference between capacity and volume? ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ 12. Give an example of an object that has a mass of about…. 1 g _________________________________ 100 g _________________________________ 1 kg ________________________________ 13. Jen and Sara find the mass of dog on a scale. They write down 15 but forget to record the unit. Which unit of measurement is correct? How do you know? 14. Label where the capacity of cup 1 and 2 would be on the number line. 15. Which cup has the greatest capacity? ___ 16. What is the difference between the cup with the greatest and least capacity? ____ 17. Jen needs a cup with a capacity of 70 ml. Which one did she most likely buy? Why? 18. Beth and her 5 students go to the library. Each student buys one book. Each book has the same mass. If the total mass of all the books is 15 kilograms. What is the mass of each book? ___________ 60 Cup 3 20 19. What is the elapsed time? ___________