Grade 5 Science practice sheet
Prince Edward Island Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
Put the parts of the digestive system in the order food travels through them.
- 🌀Stomach: acid and juices churn the food
- 🩸Small intestine: nutrients pass into the blood
- 💧Large intestine: water is absorbed
- 👄Mouth: teeth chew and saliva mixes in
- ⬇️Esophagus: muscles squeeze food down
Mouth: teeth chew and saliva mixes in → Esophagus: muscles squeeze food down → Stomach: acid and juices churn the food → Small intestine: nutrients pass into the blood → Large intestine: water is absorbed
Hint: Food is chewed in the mouth, squeezed down the esophagus, churned in the stomach, then moves through the small intestine and finally the large intestine.
Question 2
Put the steps of bending your arm in order.
- 🧠The brain sends a signal to the biceps
- 💪The biceps contracts (gets shorter)
- ↪️The arm bends at the elbow joint
- 🦴A tendon pulls on a forearm bone
The brain sends a signal to the biceps → The biceps contracts (gets shorter) → A tendon pulls on a forearm bone → The arm bends at the elbow joint
Hint: Your brain sends the message first. Then the biceps contracts, its tendon pulls the bone, and the arm bends at the elbow joint.
Question 3
Diabetes affects how the body uses sugar. Which organ is involved in controlling blood sugar?
- Pancreas
- Lungs
- Brain stem
Pancreas
Hint: The pancreas makes insulin, which helps the body use sugar from food.
Question 4
Which would you expect: heart rate at rest or after running?
- zero at rest
- the same in both
- lower at rest
- higher at rest
lower at rest
Hint: Your heart works harder when you run.
Question 5
Which of these is NOT matter?
- Air in a balloon
- A drop of juice
- A puff of smoke
- A beam of light
A beam of light
Hint: Matter has mass and volume. Light is a form of energy.
Question 6
Put these in order from LEAST thermal energy to MOST.
- ♨️Water vapour (gas)
- 💧Liquid water
- 🧊Ice (solid water)
Ice (solid water) → Liquid water → Water vapour (gas)
Hint: A solid has the least energy and its particles move the least. A gas has the most.
Question 7
A student crushes a can. This is a…
- chemical change
- change of state
- physical change
physical change
Hint: The shape changed, but it is still the same metal.
Question 8
Which is a physical change?
- chopping wood
- baking a cake
- burning wood
chopping wood
Hint: Chopped wood is still wood.
Question 9
These ramps all lift a box to the same height. Order them from LEAST force needed to MOST.
- 📐4 m ramp
- 📐2 m ramp
- 📐5 m ramp
- 📐1 m ramp
5 m ramp → 4 m ramp → 2 m ramp → 1 m ramp
Hint: For the same height, a longer ramp is gentler, so it needs less force. The trade-off: you push the box a longer distance.
Question 10
A hockey puck slides far on ice because…
- there is little friction
- there is a lot of friction
- gravity is off
there is little friction
Hint: Ice is slippery.
Answer key
- 1. Mouth: teeth chew and saliva mixes in → Esophagus: muscles squeeze food down → Stomach: acid and juices churn the food → Small intestine: nutrients pass into the blood → Large intestine: water is absorbed (Digestion & Breathing)
- 2. The brain sends a signal to the biceps → The biceps contracts (gets shorter) → A tendon pulls on a forearm bone → The arm bends at the elbow joint (Heart, Bones & Muscles)
- 3. Pancreas (Body Teamwork)
- 4. lower at rest (Heart Rate and Reaction Time)
- 5. A beam of light (Solid, Liquid, Gas)
- 6. Ice (solid water) → Liquid water → Water vapour (gas) (Changes of State)
- 7. physical change (Physical or Chemical?)
- 8. chopping wood (Mixtures, Changes and Reactions)
- 9. 5 m ramp → 4 m ramp → 2 m ramp → 1 m ramp (Simple Machines)
- 10. there is little friction (Forces, Friction and Machines)
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