1st grade Science practice sheet
Arizona Academic Standards · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
You open a drawer toward you. Push or pull?
🗄️- 🪢pull
- 👐push
🪢 pull
Hint: When something comes toward you, it's a pull.
Question 2
Why does a smoke alarm beep?
- To wake the sun
- To call a dog
- To play a game
- To warn of smoke
To warn of smoke
Hint: A loud warning.
Question 3
A puppy cries. What does its mother do?
- Goes to sleep
- Hides its food
- Comes to help it
- Runs away
Comes to help it
Hint: Parents answer their babies.
Question 4
Where do seeds often grow?
- Inside a fruit
- Inside a root
- Inside a rock
- Inside a leaf
Inside a fruit
Hint: An apple has seeds inside.
Question 5
A burdock burr sticks to a dog's fur. How does this help the plant?
🐕- the plant makes more nectar
- the seeds travel to a new place
- the dog waters the plant
- the plant gets more sunlight
the seeds travel to a new place
Hint: Seeds that travel can grow away from the parent plant, where there is more space.
Question 6
A life cycle is…
- the stages a living thing goes through during its life
- a kind of food chain
- a bicycle path
the stages a living thing goes through during its life
Hint: Life cycles describe how a living thing grows and changes.
Question 7
People cut down trees to build houses. The land…
- turns to water
- stays the same
- changes
- floats away
changes
Hint: People change their surroundings.
Question 8
Which one will slide, not roll?
- ⚽ball
- 🍊orange
- 📦box
📦 box
Hint: A box has flat sides, so it slides. Round things roll.
Question 9
Which is a light signal?
- A traffic light
- A drum
- A whistle
- A school bell
A traffic light
Hint: You see it.
Question 10
A young sunflower looks like…
- a pine tree
- a small sunflower plant
- a cactus
- a rose bush
a small sunflower plant
Hint: Young plants look like their parents.
Answer key
- 1. 🪢 pull (Push & Pull)
- 2. To warn of smoke (Signals Far Away)
- 3. Comes to help it (Parents & Babies)
- 4. Inside a fruit (Plant Parts at Work)
- 5. the seeds travel to a new place (How Plants Grow & Change)
- 6. the stages a living thing goes through during its life (Basic Needs & Life Cycles)
- 7. changes (Where Animals Live)
- 8. 📦 box (Push & Pull)
- 9. A traffic light (Signals Far Away)
- 10. a small sunflower plant (Parents & Babies)
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