WorksheetsT1-9 Definitions
Total questions: 57
Worksheet time: 29mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is an amount?
a)
How much there is of something.
b)
The entire mountain-sized pile you get if you collect every marble in the world and weigh them twice.
c)
Having nothing at all.
d)
How fast something moves (speed).
2.
What is a quantity?
a)
The number or amount of something.
b)
Enough apples to fill twenty buses stacked on top of each other and painted rainbow stripes.
c)
Zero of everything.
d)
A shape with four equal sides (square).
3.
What is a portion?
a)
A part or share of the whole.
b)
One slice from an enormous cake big enough to cover a football field and still have leftovers.
c)
The entire whole thing.
d)
The line around a circle (diameter).
4.
What is a part?
a)
A piece of something bigger.
b)
A tiny gear inside a watch that sings the time every hour and does a little dance at noon.
c)
The complete whole.
d)
How tall something is (height).
5.
What is a piece?
a)
A single bit taken from the whole.
b)
A puzzle section shaped like a dragon that keeps the other pieces company until the picture is done.
c)
The whole thing together.
d)
A measure of heat or cold (temperature).
6.
What is a bit?
a)
A very small amount.
b)
Just enough dust to cover a ladybug’s backpack after it hikes across the desert.
c)
A very large amount.
d)
How heavy something is (weight).
7.
What is a number?
a)
A symbol that shows an amount.
b)
A magical string of digits long enough to wrap around Earth three times and still spell your name.
c)
A letter with no value.
d)
The total of many things added (sum).
8.
What is value?
a)
How much something is worth.
b)
The shiny golden label you glue on a trophy before launching it to the moon for safekeeping.
c)
Having no worth at all.
d)
The space something takes up (volume).
9.
What is a total?
a)
The whole amount after adding.
b)
Every jellybean you can find in ten candy stores plus the ones hiding under your bed.
c)
Just one part.
d)
A measure of length equal to 1 000 meters (kilometer).
10.
What is a sum?
a)
The answer when numbers are added.
b)
The giant result you get after adding every star in the sky even if they keep twinkling new ones.
c)
The starting number before adding.
d)
One fourth of something (quarter).
11.
What is an average?
a)
The middle amount found by adding and dividing.
b)
Stacking cookies in equal piles until even the cookie monster says, “That’s perfectly fair.”
c)
The highest or lowest only.
d)
How fast you travel (speed).
12.
What is a percentage?
a)
A part out of one hundred.
b)
Coloring 27 ½ squares out of a giant checkerboard the size of a swimming pool just to show a fraction.
c)
Not comparing to one hundred at all.
d)
The distance around a circle (circumference/diameter context).
13.
What is half?
a)
One of two equal parts.
b)
Splitting a pizza so exactly even that every piece has the same number of cheese bubbles counted twice.
c)
The entire whole.
d)
A three-sided shape (triangle).
14.
What is a quarter?
a)
One of four equal parts.
b)
Dividing your birthday cake into four slices so perfect they could star in a geometry textbook.
c)
The whole cake.
d)
A solid box shape (cube).
15.
What is a dozen?
a)
A group of twelve.
b)
Gathering twelve bright eggs that each tell a joke before sunrise on the twelfth day of the twelfth month.
c)
Only one.
d)
One hundred of something (hundred).
16.
What is a hundred?
a)
The number 100.
b)
Stacking 100 pancakes so high that a squirrel needs an elevator to reach the top syrup pool.
c)
Only one.
d)
One billion (billion).
17.
What is a thousand?
a)
Ten hundreds, written 1 000.
b)
Filling a room with 1 000 balloons that politely excuse themselves when you open the door.
c)
Just one or two.
d)
A distance of 1 000 m (kilometer).
18.
What is a million?
a)
One thousand thousands.
b)
Counting so high your voice needs a nap after reaching 999 999 and you still have one to go.
c)
Only ten.
d)
One small bit (bit).
19.
What is a billion?
a)
One thousand millions.
b)
Enough grains of rice to build a life-size castle with rice dragons guarding every gate.
c)
Just one.
d)
A slice out of four (quarter).
20.
What is a millimeter?
a)
A tiny length equal to one-thousandth of a meter.
b)
About as long as an ant’s shoe lace measured during a slow parade on a ruler.
c)
A very long distance.
d)
The space something holds (volume).
21.
What is a centimeter?
a)
A length equal to ten millimeters.
b)
The width of a chocolate bar wrapper when flattened by a friendly elephant who meant no harm.
c)
A full kilometer.
d)
How hot or cold the air is (temperature).
22.
What is a meter?
a)
A length a little longer than a yard.
b)
The exact span of three classroom desks lined up and topped with juggling kittens.
c)
A tiny millimeter.
d)
How long something lasts (time).
23.
What is a kilometer?
a)
One thousand meters.
b)
Walking far enough to finish an ice cream, sing a song, and still see your house shrinking behind you.
c)
Just one meter.
d)
Measure of how wide something is (width).
24.
What is a mile?
a)
A length about 1.6 kilometers.
b)
Running past 17 playgrounds, 8 lamp posts, and 2 friendly dogs before needing to tie your shoe twice.
c)
One centimeter.
d)
How high something stands (height).
25.
What is speed?
a)
How fast something moves.
b)
The whizz-whizz feeling you get when a squirrel speeds by on a skateboard wearing rocket boots.
c)
Complete stillness.
d)
The measure from one point to another (distance).
26.
What is distance?
a)
How far it is from one place to another.
b)
The number of hop-skip-jumps needed to reach the moon if each jump grows wings halfway.
c)
No space between two points.
d)
How heavy something is (weight).
27.
What is length?
a)
How long something is.
b)
The stretch of taffy pulled so far it waves at both ends and still doesn’t break.
c)
Very short or none at all.
d)
One of four equal parts (quarter).
28.
What is width?
a)
How wide something is.
b)
Spreading your arms until they almost become wings to show the sofa’s side-to-side measure.
c)
Narrowness or very thin.
d)
How tall something is (height).
29.
What is depth?
a)
How deep something is.
b)
Dropping a pebble into a well so deep it has time to write a short story before hitting water.
c)
Shallow with hardly any drop.
d)
One thousand thousands (million).
30.
What is height?
a)
How tall something is.
b)
Measuring a giraffe that stands on roller skates perched on a hill wearing a top hat.
c)
Very low or short.
d)
A three-sided shape (triangle).
31.
What is altitude?
a)
Height above sea level.
b)
Counting steps up a mountain until the clouds start borrowing your hat for shade.
c)
Being at sea level exactly.
d)
A shape with six faces (cube).
32.
What is a gram?
a)
A small unit of mass.
b)
The weight of a feather wearing a tiny backpack full of fairy dust.
c)
No weight at all.
d)
A unit of distance (meter).
33.
What is a kilogram?
a)
One thousand grams.
b)
As heavy as a big book filled with cookie recipes written in chocolate ink.
c)
Just one gram.
d)
A container’s holding ability (capacity).
34.
What is a ton?
a)
A weight of 1 000 kilograms.
b)
Enough to make an elephant say “Wow, that’s heavy!” and ask for help to push it.
c)
Very light.
d)
The measure of space (volume).
35.
What is a milliliter?
a)
A tiny unit of liquid volume.
b)
The little drop a raindrop carries as a spare umbrella in case it rains again.
c)
A huge liter.
d)
A part out of one hundred (percentage).
36.
What is a liter?
a)
A basic unit for liquid volume.
b)
The amount of lemonade that exactly fills ten small paper cups at the class picnic.
c)
No liquid at all.
d)
How hot or cold (temperature).
37.
What is a gallon?
a)
A liquid measure equal to about 3.8 liters.
b)
Enough milk to give every cookie in the jar its own swimming lesson.
c)
Just one milliliter.
d)
The length around a circle (circumference/diameter).
38.
What is mass?
a)
The amount of matter in something.
b)
All the invisible bricks stuffed inside a cloud to keep it from drifting too fast.
c)
Having no matter.
d)
How long something is (length).
39.
What is weight?
a)
How heavy something is because of gravity.
b)
The tug Earth gives your backpack when you fill it with textbooks and three surprise kittens.
c)
No heaviness at all.
d)
One of two equal parts (half).
40.
What is capacity?
a)
How much something can hold.
b)
A backpack so roomy it could store a whole week of lunches plus a small marching band’s drum set.
c)
Cannot hold anything.
d)
The corner size between two lines (angle).
41.
What is volume?
a)
The amount of space something takes up.
b)
Measuring all the air in a giant balloon big enough to shade the playground at noon.
c)
No space at all.
d)
How far a trip is (distance).
42.
What is an angle?
a)
The space between two lines that meet.
b)
The pizza slice shape you get if a ninja turtle sneezes while cutting.
c)
A straight line with no bend.
d)
A measure of heat (temperature).
43.
What is a degree?
a)
A unit for measuring angles or temperature.
b)
The tiny step a clock hand moves when it’s shy but still wants to say “tick.”
c)
No measurement at all.
d)
One complete round shape (circle).
44.
What is temperature?
a)
How hot or cold something is.
b)
The dance between cozy sweaters and popsicles that decides today’s outfit.
c)
No heat or cold difference.
d)
A measure of speed (speed).
45.
What is time?
a)
How long things take.
b)
Invisible footsteps marching from yesterday to tomorrow while telling stories on the way.
c)
No passing moments.
d)
How deep something is (depth).
46.
What is an hour?
a)
Sixty minutes.
b)
Long enough to watch clouds form a dragon, melt into a whale, then drift away with popcorn dreams.
c)
One second.
d)
A hundred of something (hundred).
47.
What is a minute?
a)
Sixty seconds.
b)
The perfect length to toast bread, sing half a song, and wave at the clock for good luck.
c)
An entire day.
d)
A tiny unit of length (millimeter).
48.
What is a second?
a)
A very short unit of time.
b)
Quick as a hiccup from a giggling hamster riding a skateboard.
c)
A whole hour.
d)
One-fourth of something (quarter).
49.
What is a circle?
a)
A round shape with no corners.
b)
A loop so smooth even ants slide like skaters when they march around it for fun.
c)
A shape with sharp corners.
d)
A box shape with 6 faces (cube).
50.
What is a diameter?
a)
A line across a circle through the center.
b)
The straight path a squirrel takes when it rushes from one tree edge to the opposite tree edge without climbing.
c)
The outside of the circle only.
d)
Three sides and three corners (triangle).
51.
What is a square?
a)
A shape with four equal sides and four right angles.
b)
A dance floor so perfectly even that every ant marching across has to count exactly four steps per side.
c)
A shape with three sides.
d)
A long 3-D round shape (cylinder).
52.
What is a rectangle?
a)
A shape with four right angles and opposite sides equal.
b)
Like a door that politely stretched taller than a square so giants could visit.
c)
A shape with no angles.
d)
A solid made of six equal squares (cube).
53.
What is a triangle?
a)
A shape with three sides.
b)
The slice of pizza that rehearses geometry lessons before dinner is served.
c)
A shape with four sides.
d)
A unit equal to 1 000 kg (ton).
54.
What is a cube?
a)
A solid with six equal square faces.
b)
A sugar block so perfectly even it could moonlight as a dice for giants at game night.
c)
A flat square on paper.
d)
A round solid like a can (cylinder).
55.
What is a cylinder?
a)
A solid shape like a can, two circles and a curved side.
b)
A roller that could tuck in 100 jelly beans and still have room for two more songs and a nap.
c)
A flat circle only.
d)
A shape with a point and round base (cone).
56.
What is a cone?
a)
A solid with a round base and a point.
b)
An ice-cream holder so tall it needs an elevator for sprinkles.
c)
A box with six flat sides.
d)
A two-dimensional round line (circle).
57.
What is area?
a)
The size of a surface.
b)
Enough floor space for 200 tap-dancing kittens to perform a perfectly synchronized routine.
c)
No surface at all.
d)
How hot or cold (temperature).
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