The volume of a teacher’s desk is about one cubic metre. The volume of a box two metres high by three metres wide by four metres long is 24 cubic metres.
Smaller volumes:
A litre of water has the volume of one cubic decimetre.
There are 1,000 litres in a cubic metre.
A cubic metre of water is 1,000 litres.
A litre contains 1,000 cubic centimetres.
A teaspoon holds about five cubic centimetres (or five millilitres) of liquid, and a cubic millimetre is so small that 1,000 of them would occupy the space of a cubic centimetre.