Name ______
Mass, Length and `Volume Study Guide
To prepare for the mass and length quiz, make sure you know the information listed below. Study a little bit at a time from your notes, get some help from your friends, and relax – if you prepare, you will do great! J
Vocabulary to Know:
length = meter meter stick
Mass = gram triple beam balance
volume = liter or cubic cm graduated cylinder meniscus
Mass: Fill in the blanks.
· Know how to use a triple-beam balance to measure mass in grams (g)
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· Be able to estimate when you should measure in a particular unit (For example, how do you know when to use grams versus kilograms? Or milligrams versus grams?)
Length:
· Know how to use a ruler or meter stick to accurately measure length in meters (m), centimeters (cm), and millimeters (mm)
· Be able to estimate when you should measure in a particular unit (For example, how do you know when to use millimeters or centimeters?)
Volume:
* Know how to measure a regular and an irregular oblect. * 1 mL = 1 cubic cm
* units for solid volume are cubic cm and for liquid mL
Complete all the problems below either in your notebook OR print out the sheets and write on them.
Practice Problems:
1) Measure the mass listed on the following triple beam balance:
What is the mass? ______
2) Which units would you use to find the mass of the following objects:
a) A textbook c) A truck
b) A pencil d) A person
3) Measure the length of each of the following lines to the nearest mm and cm:
a) ______c) ______
b) ______
4) Which units would you use to find the length of the following objects:
a) A water bottle c) A lab table
b) A fruitfly (tiny fly) d) The distance from Egypt to Europe
5) If a graduated cylinder has 34 mL of water and you put an object in, the water will now be at 52 mL of water. What is the volume of the object? ______(show work)
6. What is the volume of a regular solid show below? Show your formula and work.
7. What is the volume of the liquid in the graduated cylinder? ______
8. What is the name of the curve of water in the cylinder? ______
9.Why does it curve? ______
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(erase the word BECAUSE!!!)
10. What is the measurement of this leaf? ______
11. What is the volume of the dinosaur? ______
Describe how you found this out?
Identify each statement as a Quantitive Observation, Qualitative Observation, Inference or story based on the picture. USE THE ABBREVIATIONS BELOW. (1/2 pt each)
QL= QUALITATIVE QN=QUANTITATIVE
IN= INFERENCE ST=STORY
______12. There are 9 windows
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_____13. The house is dark.
______14. The people on the house are going to pour
oil on the people below.
______15 6 people are standing outside the
door on the ground.
______16 .Some people are wearing hats.
______17. The people at the door have been exercising and are very hot.
so people on the top of the house are pouring cold water on them!
`Find the definition that matches the vocabulary word.
______18. Procedure A. a prediction of what you think the answer to the problem is
______19. Data L. how much space an object takes up
______20. Hypothesis C. the result of the activity- did you prove your hypothesis
______21. Units D. step by step instructions on how to do a lab
______22. Volume H. the base unit for length
______23. Mass M . we measure this in grams
______24. Conclusion T. information collect during an experiment
______25. Meter P. the base unit for volume
______26. Liter X. the parts of the experiment we need to keep the same
______27. Controls W. we use these to show what a number means