Grade 2 temperature quiz: Test your thermometer skills

🌡️ Quick Study Guide

• 🧊 Temperature: Tells us how hot or cold something is.
• 🌡️ Thermometer: A tool we use to measure temperature. Most thermometers use Celsius (°C) or Fahrenheit (°F).
• 💧 Reading a Thermometer: Look at the top of the red or colored liquid inside the thermometer. The number it lines up with is the temperature.
• 🔥 Hotter Temperatures: Higher numbers on the thermometer mean it's hotter.
• ❄️ Colder Temperatures: Lower numbers mean it's colder.

🧪 Practice Quiz

1. What does a thermometer measure?
   1. How heavy something is
   2. How hot or cold something is
   3. How long something is
2. What happens to the number on a thermometer when it gets hotter?
   1. The number stays the same
   2. The number goes down
   3. The number goes up
3. If a thermometer shows 0°C, is it hot or cold?
   1. Hot
   2. Cold
   3. Warm
4. Which unit is commonly used to measure temperature?
   1. Kilograms
   2. Meters
   3. Celsius
5. What part of the thermometer do you look at to read the temperature?
   1. The bottom of the thermometer
   2. The top of the colored liquid
   3. The glass part
6. If one day it is 10°C and the next day it is 15°C, what happened to the temperature?
   1. It got colder
   2. It stayed the same
   3. It got warmer
7. Which of these temperatures is the hottest?
   1. 5°C
   2. 10°C
   3. 15°C