Bill Nye: Measurement

The more carefully we measure, the more _____________________ we can make things, to make them fit.

• carefully

• precisely

• accurately

• bigger

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What are some of the instruments in an airplane designed to measure?

• Speed

• Amount of fuel

• How high up the plane is

• All of these answers

Whose foot was used to standardize the unit known as the foot?

• The King of England

• The Emperor of China

• The President of the United States

• Mr. Gallagher

What did scientists use to come up with the length of a meter?

• A person's height

• The distance from the Equator to the North Pole

• The length of a meter stick

• 100 centimeters

0.1 meter x 0.1 meter x 0.1 meter = a cubic meter or a _______________ (volume)

• Kilogram

• Centiliter

• Milliliter

• Liter

1 Liter = _______________(mass)

• Centigram

• Kilogram

• Cubic meter

• Milligram

Every time the arrows on a hodometer cross each other, you have walked _____________.

• 1 meter

• 15.8 centimeters

• 1 kilometer

• 1 mile

What happens to the liquid in the thermometer to make it go up when it is hot?

• It goes up

• It contracts (decreases in volume)

• The space in the thermometer gets smaller

• It expands (increases in volume)

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The metric scale for temperature is the...

• Celsius Scale

• Fahrenheit Scale

• Metric Temperature Scale

• Freezing and Boiling Scale

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In the Celsius Scale, water freezes at _________________ and boils at ___________________.

• 100 degrees and 0 degrees

• 32 degrees and 212 degrees

• 0 degrees, 100 degrees

• 1 degree and 1000 degrees

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