Vocabulary Quiz - Measurement: Length

This vocabulary quiz tests Year 3 students' understanding of measurement terms related to length. The first question asks to define 'length', with the correct answer being that it is a measurement that identifies the distance between two points. The second question seeks to clarify the meaning of 'height', which is correctly described as a way to measure someone or something from base to top or head to toe. Following this, the quiz probes the students' knowledge of a 'kilometre', which is a metric unit of length equating to 1000 metres.

The quiz continues with a question about a 'millimetre', which is correctly identified as a metric measure of length where 1000 millimetres make up 1 metre. Students are then asked about the 'perimeter', which is the distance around a shape. In a practical application of measurement, the quiz asks what a 'trundle wheel' is, with the answer being a device used to find the distance from one location to another. The term 'metre' is correctly defined as a metric measurement for length. The quiz then touches on the 'mile', an imperial measurement of distance historically defined as 1000 paces – the Roman mile. The ninth question asks how to write '35cm' in words, which is thirty-five centimetres. Finally, students are quizzed on what it means to convert a unit of length, with the correct answer being to change the unit of measurement into a different unit of measurement.