Volume

What is measured with a graduated cylinder?

• Passage of time
• Distance from one thing to another
• Weight of an object
• Volume of liquid

How do you measure the volume of a regular shaped object?

• a graduated cylinder
• multiplying length times width times height
• with a balance
• water displacement method

How do you measure the volume of an irregular shaped object?

• length times width times height
• water displacement method
• using a pan balance
• using a triple beam balance

What is a unit used to measure the volume of a regular object?

• milliters
• pounds
• centimeters cubed
• grams

You need to figure out the volume of a rock. You fill a graduated cylinder to 10 mL and record the measurement, then you place the rock into the cylinder and it raises it to 20 mL. What is the volume of the rock?

• 20 mL
• 25 mL
• 10 mL
• 30 mL

Anything that has mass and volume is this.

• energy
• matter
• electrons
• conditions

All of these are examples of tools which measure liquid volume except:

• graduated cylinder
• beaker
• ruler
• erlenmeyer flask

When reading the volume of water in a graduated cylinder, you should always

• look at the water level above the meniscus
• hold the graduated cylinder in the air to read the meniscus 
• estimate the water level
• look at the bottom of the meniscus 

The tiniest pieces of matter are called _____.

• atoms
• protons
• neutrons
• pizza

What is the volume of liquid in this graduated cylinder?

• 40.0 mL
• 40.3 mL
• 43.0 mL
• 44.0 mL