CHAPTER 10 VOCABULARY - MEASUREMENT

THE TIME AFTER MIDNIGHT AND BEFORE NOON

• A.M.

• P.M.

• U.S.A.

• MIDDAY

THE TIME THAT PASSES FROM THE START OF AN ACTIVITY TO THE END OF THAT ACTIVITY.

• INTERVAL

• ELAPSED TIME

• PAST TIME

• OVER TIME

A METRIC UNIT USED TO MEASURE MASS. A SMALL PAPER CLIP HAS A MASS OF ABOUT 1 PAPER CLIP.

• KILOGRAM

• GRAM

• MILLIGRAM

• GRAHAM CRACKER

TWO EQUAL PARTS OF A WHOLE

• HALVES

• FOURTHS

• THIRDS

• EIGHTHS

THE AMOUNT OF MATTER IN AN OBJECT

• MATTER

• MASS

• MATERIAL

• GRAM

A METRIC UNIT USED TO MEASURE LIQUID VOLUME

• MASS

• GRAM

• LITER

• HALVES

A METRIC UNIT USED TO MEASURE MASS THAT IS EQUAL TO 1000 GRAMS.

• KILOMETER

• KILOGRAM

• GRAM

• LITER

THE AMOUNT OF LIQUID IN A CONTAINER

• LIQUID VOLUME

• AREA

• PERIMETER

• LITER

THE TIME AFTER NOON AND BEFORE MIDNIGHT

• P.M.

• A.M.

• Y.A.

• B.C.

12:00 IN THE DAY

• MIDNIGHT

• NOON

• DAWN

• DUSK