2nd grade Science practice sheet
Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
Ice cream left in the sun will…
- 🧱get harder
- 🍦melt
- ♨️turn into water vapor
🍦 melt
Hint: Heat from the sun melts ice cream.
Question 2
You mix blue and yellow paint. What color do you get?
- 🔴red
- ⚪white
- 🟢green
🟢 green
Hint: Blue and yellow mixed together make green.
Question 3
What can make a rolling ball stop or change direction?
⚽- 👀looking at it
- 🗣️saying “stop!”
- 🤲a push or a pull
🤲 a push or a pull
Hint: Forces (pushes and pulls) change how things move.
Question 4
Put the water cycle in order. Start with the sun warming the water.
- ☀️Sun warms water and it rises
- ☁️Clouds form
- 🌊Water collects in rivers and oceans
- 🌧️Rain or snow falls
Sun warms water and it rises → Clouds form → Rain or snow falls → Water collects in rivers and oceans
Hint: Warm water rises into the sky, makes clouds, falls as rain, and collects in rivers and oceans.
Question 5
Put the seasons in order. Start with spring.
- ❄️winter
- 🌷spring
- 🍂fall
- ☀️summer
spring → summer → fall → winter
Hint: Flowers grow in spring. Next comes hot summer, then leafy fall, then cold winter.
Question 6
A weather alert on a phone helps people…
- get ready for a storm
- grow plants
- make it rain
- stop the wind
get ready for a storm
Hint: Warnings give time.
Question 7
Which animal is a pollinator?
- Fish
- Butterfly
- Snail
- Worm
Butterfly
Hint: It visits flowers.
Question 8
Which of these is NOT a liquid?
- 🎨paint
- 🖍️a crayon
- 🍲soup
🖍️ a crayon
Hint: A crayon is hard and keeps its shape.
Question 9
Popcorn kernels are heated and pop. What kind of change is this?
- 🚫no change at all
- 🔄a change you can easily undo
- 🍿a change that can't be undone
🍿 a change that can't be undone
Hint: You can't put popped popcorn back into a kernel!
Question 10
Is it a push or a pull? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 👐 push · 🪢 pull
- ⚽kick a ball
- 🪢tug-of-war
- 🌱pull a weed
- 🛒push a cart
- 🛷pull a sled
- 🎳bowl a ball
👐 push: kick a ball, push a cart, bowl a ball · 🪢 pull: tug-of-war, pull a weed, pull a sled
Hint: A push moves something away from you. A pull moves something toward you.
Answer key
- 1. 🍦 melt (Solids & Liquids)
- 2. 🟢 green (Changing Materials)
- 3. 🤲 a push or a pull (Push & Pull)
- 4. Sun warms water and it rises → Clouds form → Rain or snow falls → Water collects in rivers and oceans (Water World)
- 5. spring → summer → fall → winter (Weather & Seasons)
- 6. get ready for a storm (Weather Hazards & Solutions)
- 7. Butterfly (Plants, Seeds & Pollinators)
- 8. 🖍️ a crayon (Solids & Liquids)
- 9. 🍿 a change that can't be undone (Changing Materials)
- 10. 👐 push: kick a ball, push a cart, bowl a ball · 🪢 pull: tug-of-war, pull a weed, pull a sled (Push & Pull)
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