1st grade Science practice sheet
Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
Why do many animals grow thicker fur in the fall?
- 🏊to swim faster
- ❄️to stay warm in winter
- 🌰to hide food
❄️ to stay warm in winter
Hint: Winter is coming! Thicker fur keeps animals warm when it's cold.
Question 2
Is the sound loud or quiet? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 📢 loud · 🤫 quiet
- 🚒fire truck siren
- 🪶feather falling
- 🥁drum
- ⌚ticking watch
- 🐈cat purring
- ✈️jet plane
📢 loud: fire truck siren, drum, jet plane · 🤫 quiet: feather falling, ticking watch, cat purring
Hint: Loud sounds are big and strong. Quiet sounds are soft, and you have to listen closely.
Question 3
Can you see through it? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 👀 see-through · 🙈 not see-through
- 🪨rock
- 🥃glass cup
- 📦box
- 👓glasses
- 🧱brick wall
- 🔍magnifying glass
👀 see-through: glass cup, glasses, magnifying glass · 🙈 not see-through: rock, box, brick wall
Hint: If light passes through and you can see what's behind it, it is see-through.
Question 4
How are you like your family?
- We may have the same hair color
- We are all exactly the same
- We all have wings
- We all have tails
We may have the same hair color
Hint: Children share some features.
Question 5
Bees visit which plant part?
- Bark
- Roots
- Stems
- Flowers
Flowers
Hint: Flowers have nectar.
Question 6
What do a plant's roots do?
- Catch bugs
- Take in water
- Make noise
- Make flowers
Take in water
Hint: Roots are under the ground.
Question 7
Which is easier to hear far away?
- A tiny tap
- A quiet hum
- A loud horn
- A soft whisper
A loud horn
Hint: Louder sounds carry farther.
Question 8
Which is a way to reuse?
📄- tear paper into bits and drop it
- throw the paper away right away
- draw on both sides of paper
draw on both sides of paper
Hint: Using both sides is using something again.
Question 9
An owl hunts at night. What helps it see?
🦉- 🦶webbed feet
- 〰️a long tail
- 👀big eyes
👀 big eyes
Hint: An owl's big eyes let in lots of light, so it can see in the dark.
Question 10
How can you make a drum sound louder?
🥁- 🚫don't touch it
- 🤏hit it softly
- 💪hit it harder
💪 hit it harder
Hint: A bigger hit makes a bigger, louder sound.
Answer key
- 1. ❄️ to stay warm in winter (Animal Survival)
- 2. 📢 loud: fire truck siren, drum, jet plane · 🤫 quiet: feather falling, ticking watch, cat purring (Light & Sound)
- 3. 👀 see-through: glass cup, glasses, magnifying glass · 🙈 not see-through: rock, box, brick wall (Materials)
- 4. We may have the same hair color (Parents & Babies)
- 5. Flowers (Plant Parts at Work)
- 6. Take in water (Ideas from Nature)
- 7. A loud horn (Signals Far Away)
- 8. draw on both sides of paper (Care for Our Earth)
- 9. 👀 big eyes (Animal Survival)
- 10. 💪 hit it harder (Light & Sound)
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