Practice Worksheet

Measurement

Length and Height

20 marks

1
A teacher's ruler is _____ than a student's eraser.
2
A new pencil is _____.
3
A coconut tree is very _____.
4
Grass is very _____.
5
A giraffe is a _____ animal.
6
A cat is _____ than an elephant.
7
A car is _____ than an express bus.
8
A stretched skipping rope is _____.
9
Our little finger is _____.
10
Between a flagpole and a classroom door, the flagpole is _____.
11
The length of a table is measured using 6 handspans. What is the measuring unit?
12
The width of a book is measured using paper clips. Paper clips are a _____ unit of measurement.
13
The length of a classroom is measured using footsteps. 10 _____ are used.
14
Book A is 4 paper clips long. Book B is 6 paper clips long. Which book is longer?
15
A pencil is 5 bead packs long. An eraser is 2 bead packs long. The eraser is _____.
16
Measuring from the thumb to the index finger is called a _____.
17
When measuring with an arm span, measure from the fingertips of the left hand to the fingertips of the _____ hand.
18
Estimate the width of a laptop screen in handspans. Estimate: _____ handspans.
19
The more paper clips used, the _____ the object is.
20
The object with the fewest non-standard measurement units is the _____.

15 marks

21
A watermelon is _____.
22
A papaya is _____ compared with a banana.
23
A bird feather is _____.
24
An inflated balloon is _____.
25
A school bag full of books is _____.
26
A thin notebook is _____.
27
A teacher's wooden chair is _____.
28
A piece of chalk is _____.
29
A cement truck is _____.
30
A paper clip is _____.
31
If a balance scale tilts down on Object A's side, Object A is _____.
32
If a balance scale is level, the two objects have _____ weight.
33
A bag weighs the same as 5 apples. What is the non-standard unit of weight?
34
A papaya weighs the same as 8 oranges. A pineapple weighs the same as 5 oranges. Which fruit is heavier?
35
Between cotton and a rock, which object is lighter?

15 marks

36
Water in a newly opened bottle is _____.
37
A cup that has been completely drunk is _____.
38
A large bucket can hold _____ water than a small cup.
39
A baby milk bottle contains _____ liquid when it is filled halfway.
40
A teapot that can fill 6 cups has a _____ volume.
41
A small amount of water at the bottom of a glass is called _____.
42
If water spills out of a glass, the glass is already _____.
43
A water jug holds _____ water than a glass.
44
A soup bowl with no soup at all is _____.
45
A teaspoon holds a very _____ amount of water.
46
One jug holds 4 glasses of water. How many glasses are needed to fill 2 jugs?
47
Bottle X needs 5 cups of water to be full. Bottle Y needs 3 cups. Which bottle has the larger volume?
48
A small aquarium needs 10 scoops of water to be full. It has 9 scoops. Is it full? Write Yes or No.
49
Liquid from one bowl is poured into another bowl of the same size. Does its volume change? Write Yes or No.
50
Liquid takes the _____ of the container it is poured into.

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