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Grade 5 Science practice sheet

Saskatchewan Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________

  1. Question 1

    Why is it helpful to read an ingredient list?

    • You can choose foods that suit your health needs, such as allergies
    • It tells you the price of the food
    • It tells you how long the food took to make
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    You can choose foods that suit your health needs, such as allergies

    Hint: Ingredients are listed so people can avoid foods that could harm them.

  2. Question 2

    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
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    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.

  3. Question 3

    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
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    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.

  4. Question 4

    Diabetes affects how the body uses sugar. Which organ is involved in controlling blood sugar?

    • Pancreas
    • Lungs
    • Brain stem
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    Pancreas

    Hint: The pancreas makes insulin, which helps the body use sugar from food.

  5. Question 5

    Which of these is NOT matter?

    • Air in a balloon
    • A drop of juice
    • A puff of smoke
    • A beam of light
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    A beam of light

    Hint: Matter has mass and volume. Light is a form of energy.

  6. Question 6

    Put these in order from LEAST thermal energy to MOST.

    • ♨️Water vapour (gas)
    • 💧Liquid water
    • 🧊Ice (solid water)
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    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.

  7. Question 7

    A student crushes a can. This is a…

    • chemical change
    • change of state
    • physical change
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    physical change

    Hint: The shape changed, but it is still the same metal.

  8. Question 8

    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
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    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.

  9. Question 9

    Which clouds look like white, puffy cotton balls on a fair day?

    ⛅
    • nimbus
    • cirrus
    • stratus
    • cumulus
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    cumulus

    Hint: Cumulus clouds often bring fair weather.

  10. Question 10

    What is hail?

    🧊
    • soft snow
    • warm rain
    • balls of ice that fall during some thunderstorms
    • fog
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    balls of ice that fall during some thunderstorms

    Hint: Hail can damage crops, cars and roofs.

Answer key

  1. 1. You can choose foods that suit your health needs, such as allergies (Healthy Choices)
  2. 2. 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)
  3. 3. 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)
  4. 4. Pancreas (Body Teamwork)
  5. 5. A beam of light (Solid, Liquid, Gas)
  6. 6. Ice (solid water) → Liquid water → Water vapour (gas) (Changes of State)
  7. 7. physical change (Physical or Chemical?)
  8. 8. 5 m ramp → 4 m ramp → 2 m ramp → 1 m ramp (Simple Machines)
  9. 9. cumulus (Measuring Weather)
  10. 10. balls of ice that fall during some thunderstorms (Weather Patterns & Impacts)

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