West Ireland Whale Watch: Content Vocabulary

"West Ireland Whale Watch"

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the measurement or extent of something from end to end

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Length

• Ruler

• Tapes

• Yardsticks

• Meter sticks

• Feet/foot scale

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​How do we measure length?

A millimeter is about the thickness of a plastic id card (or credit card).

Or about the thickness of 10 sheets of paper on top of each other.

This is a very small measurement

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Millimeter (mm)

a metric unit of length, equal to one hundredth of a meter

A fingernail is about one centimeter wide.
We can use millimeters or centimeters to measure how tall we are, or how wide a table is.

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Centimeter (cm)

a metric unit of length equal to 100 centimeters

The length of this guitar is about 1 meter

Meters can be used to measure the length of a house, or the size of a playground.

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​Meter (m)

​a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters

When we need to get from one place to another, we measure the distance using kilometers.

The distance from one city to another or how far a plane travels can be measured using kilometers.

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Kilometer (km)

a measure of the heaviness of an object

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Weight

A scale or balance is a device used to measure weight or mass.

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​How do we measure weight?

the measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of Fahrenheit and Celsius

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Temperature

A percentage is a number that tells us how much out of 100.

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What is percentage?

The frequency of an event is the number of times it happens during a particular period.

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Frequency

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Which ones are length?

• the measurement or extent of something from end to end

• The frequency of an event is the number of times it happens during a particular period.

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Multiple Choice

Which ones are weight?

• A percentage is a number that tells us how much out of 100.

• a measure of the heaviness of an object

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Which ones are temperature?

• the measurement or extent of something from end to end

• the measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of Fahrenheit and Celsius

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Which ones are percentage?

• about the thickness of a plastic id card (or credit card).

  Or about the thickness of 10 sheets of paper on top of each other

• a number that tells us how much out of 100

Multiple Select

Which ones are frequency?

• the number of times it happens during a particular period

• The order of items in a set

• The type of items in a set

• Occurrences of a particular item in a given set of data.