Litres and

Millilitres
 How is water used for
Why is water essential?
work?

Living things need water Example: by farmers and

to stay alive. firefighters

Review:
WATER
How do we use water at What are the sources of
home? water?
For cleaning, washing
Taps, wells, rivers, ponds
clothes, washing dishes,
and lake
for cooking, etc.
What do you notice about these 4 bottles?

They have different shapes, different height, different colours and different types
of liquids inside.

One thing in common is the amounts of liquid inside the bottle are the same.
Each bottle can hold 2 litres of a liquid. The amount of space they have for
holding a liquid is the same. This space is called capacity.
What do you notice about the 4 containers below?

The four containers

have different
capacity but the
amounts of liquid
inside each
container are the
same. Each
container has 4ml
of water. This
amount is called
VOLUME.
 Quick check:

Is the flask
filled to its
capacity?

Answer: NO.
Litres and millilitres are units used to
measure the capacity of a liquid.
Certain liquids in the supermarket are
sold in litres and millilitres.
More examples:
 If we pour 1L of water into smaller beakers,
10 beakers with 100ml capacity will be filled.

1L

is equal to

1000 ml
These are used to measure exact
amount of liquids.
What is the volume of water inside?

30 millilitres or
30 ml.
What is the volume of water inside?

80 millilitres or 200 millilitres

80 ml. or 200 ml.
 Activity book pp. 25-26
Joe drinks 2 L of water everyday. He also uses 20
L of water in his bath and 500 ml of water to brush
his teeth.

Sue drinks 1 L of water everyday. She uses 15 L in

her bath and 600 ml of water to brush her teeth.

Dr. Atom drinks 2 L of water everyday. He uses 24

L of water in his bath and 600 ml to brush his teeth.
Organise the information in a table.

Amount of water uses in a day

Drinking Bathing Brushing Total

Joe
2L 20 L 500 ml 22 L 500 ml

Sue
1L 15 L 600 ml 16 L 600 ml

Dr Atom
2L 24 L 600 ml 26 L 600 ml
 2. Answer the following questions.
A. Who used the most water for E. Who used the most amount of water
bathing? for all three activities?

- Dr. Atom - Dr Atom

B. Who used the least water for bathing? F. Who used the least amount of water
for all three activities?
- Sue
- Sue
C. In which activity did Sue and Dr Atom
use the same amount of water?

- brushing teeth

D. In which activity did Joe and Dr Atom

use the same amount of water?

-drinking