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Year 5 Science

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  • Beaks, claws and fins
  • Water — the essence of life
  • Energy — how things work

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Year 5 Science · 1 of 3

Beaks, claws and fins

Read an animal's body like a set of tools: work out from a beak, a claw, a snout or a foot what its owner eats and where it gets about.

Before you start

A turtle in the shallows, with its shell, its head and its spread feet.

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  1. 1. The shell
  2. 2. The webbed feet
  3. 3. The head

Two different jobs, two different parts. The shell is armour and does nothing to help the turtle move; the feet are spread and joined by skin, which pushes far more water than a bare foot would.

  1. 1.Which bird does the chapter give as its example of a colourful one?

    • a) The eagle
    • b) The sparrow
    • c) The owl
    • d) The peacock

  2. 2.Match each animal to the body part the chapter gives it, and the job that part does.

    • Elephant
    • Sparrow
    • Eagle
    • Sunbird
    • A sharp curved beak and claws, for catching prey
    • A short, strong beak, for cracking seeds
    • A long beak, for drinking nectar
    • A long trunk, for taking up food and water

  3. 3.An eagle catches its prey with two sharp things. One is its curved beak. Tap the other.

    Write the number of the part.

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  4. 4.A sunbird's beak is long and thin so that it can reach right into a flower. What sweet liquid does it drink from there?

  5. 5.Tap the part of this turtle that helps it swim easily.

    Write the number of the part.

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  6. 6.What does the chapter say you can guess about a bird by observing its beak and claws?

    • a) How far it flies each day
    • b) Its eating habits
    • c) How old it is
    • d) Where it builds its nest

  7. 7.What does the chapter say a turtle's strong shell is for?

    • a) Keeping it safe
    • b) Helping it float
    • c) Keeping it warm in winter
    • d) Storing water for dry days

  8. 8.What do fish have to swim with?

    • a) Fins
    • b) Webbed feet
    • c) Long tails alone
    • d) Flippers

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Year 5 Science · 2 of 3

Water — the essence of life

Name the forms water takes, follow it round the water cycle, tell groundwater from surface water, and recognise the plants and animals that live in freshwater.

Before you start

A stretch of land that water has shaped, and the name of each part of it.

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  1. 1. Ice cap
  2. 2. Glacier
  3. 3. Waterfall
  4. 4. River
  5. 5. Lake
  6. 6. Forest

Water is doing the same thing at each of these: coming down off the high ground and gathering in the low. The ice cap and the glacier are it held as solid; the waterfall, the river and the lake are it moving and pooling.

  1. 1.Rain falls on each of these. Sort them by whether the rain can soak through into the ground.

    Groups: Lets rainwater soak in · Keeps rainwater out

    • A soak pit
    • Ground planted with trees
    • A paved area
    • A concrete road
    • A green lawn

  2. 2.A village digs wells, borewells, tube wells and handpumps. What are these for?

    • a) Holding water back to form a lake
    • b) Making salty water fit for drinking
    • c) Drawing up water stored under the ground
    • d) Carrying rainwater away from the fields

  3. 3.Water rises as vapour, gathers as cloud, falls again and runs back to the sea, over and over. What two-word name does this circular movement have?

  4. 4.Rain is falling on this piece of land. Tap the groundwater — the water that has sunk down and is stored deep below the surface.

    Write the number of the part.

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  5. 5.Sort each of these by the form of water it is.

    Groups: Solid · Liquid · Vapour

    • Snow
    • Steam
    • Rain
    • Ice

  6. 6.Imagine the whole of the Earth's water poured into one glass. About how much of that glassful would be freshwater?

    • a) Nearly the whole glass
    • b) About half the glass
    • c) About a teaspoonful
    • d) About a quarter of the glass

  7. 7.Why can the greater part of the water on Earth not be used for drinking?

    • a) Most of it is held inside plants and animals
    • b) Most of it is salty sea water
    • c) Most of it is frozen into ice caps
    • d) Most of it is stored too deep underground

  8. 8.Rain soaks into the soil and sinks down through soil and rock until it is stored deep below. What is that stored water called?

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Year 5 Science · 3 of 3

Energy — how things work

Say what energy does, name the sources a home and a vehicle run on, tell clean energy from fuels that pollute, and handle electricity safely.

Before you start

A house that draws on three natural sources of energy at once.

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  1. 1. Solar panels
  2. 2. The windmill
  3. 3. The water wheel
  4. 4. The house

Three different sources, one roofline. The panels take the Sun, the blades take the wind, the wheel takes the stream — and none of the three burns anything to do it.

  1. 1.Match each machine to the natural source of energy it draws on.

    • Solar panels
    • Windmills
    • Gharaats, the watermills of the hills
    • Wind
    • Flowing water
    • Sunlight

  2. 2.Electricity made from the wind, from water or from the Sun leaves behind no smoke and no waste. What two-word name does the chapter give it?

  3. 3.In parts of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Ladakh, families keep their cattle on the ground floor and live on the floor above. Why?

    • a) The animals are safer from the wind at ground level
    • b) It leaves the upper floor free for storing firewood
    • c) It is easier to carry water to the animals that way
    • d) The heat from the animals keeps the rooms above warm in winter

  4. 4.A dog runs, a bird flies, and you walk to school. Where does the energy for each of the three come from?

    • a) Sunlight falling on them
    • b) The warmth of the ground
    • c) Food
    • d) The air they breathe

  5. 5.Electricity can be made from each of these. Sort them by what making it costs the air around us.

    Groups: Makes electricity without polluting · Makes smoke and pollution when burnt

    • The wind
    • Coal
    • Flowing water
    • Wood
    • The Sun

  6. 6.Rubber bands are stretched round a cardboard box and plucked. What kind of energy does the chapter say this shows?

    • a) Heat energy
    • b) Stored energy
    • c) Light energy
    • d) Sound energy

  7. 7.Sort each of these into what is safe to do around electricity and what is not.

    Groups: Safe · Not safe

    • Play near an electric box or a transformer
    • Poke a pencil into a socket
    • Touch the wires of a device while it is plugged in
    • Tell an adult that a switch looks strange
    • Stay away from a fallen electric pole

  8. 8.What does energy efficiency mean?

    • a) Using less energy to do the same work
    • b) Storing energy so it can be used later
    • c) Using energy from the Sun rather than from coal
    • d) Making energy at home rather than buying it

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Answer keys — Year 5 Science

In the same order as the worksheets.

Beaks, claws and fins

  1. 1. d) The peacock
  2. 2. Elephant → A long trunk, for taking up food and water; Sparrow → A short, strong beak, for cracking seeds; Eagle → A sharp curved beak and claws, for catching prey; Sunbird → A long beak, for drinking nectar
  3. 3. 2 — The claws
  4. 4. nectar
  5. 5. 2 — The webbed feet
  6. 6. b) Its eating habits
  7. 7. a) Keeping it safe
  8. 8. a) Fins

Water — the essence of life

  1. 1. A green lawn → Lets rainwater soak in; A soak pit → Lets rainwater soak in; Ground planted with trees → Lets rainwater soak in; A concrete road → Keeps rainwater out; A paved area → Keeps rainwater out
  2. 2. c) Drawing up water stored under the ground
  3. 3.
    • water cycle
    • the water cycle
  4. 4. 4 — Groundwater
  5. 5. Ice → Solid; Snow → Solid; Rain → Liquid; Steam → Vapour
  6. 6. c) About a teaspoonful
  7. 7. b) Most of it is salty sea water
  8. 8.
    • groundwater
    • ground water

Energy — how things work

  1. 1. Solar panels → Sunlight; Windmills → Wind; Gharaats, the watermills of the hills → Flowing water
  2. 2. clean energy
  3. 3. d) The heat from the animals keeps the rooms above warm in winter
  4. 4. c) Food
  5. 5. The Sun → Makes electricity without polluting; The wind → Makes electricity without polluting; Flowing water → Makes electricity without polluting; Coal → Makes smoke and pollution when burnt; Wood → Makes smoke and pollution when burnt
  6. 6. d) Sound energy
  7. 7. Stay away from a fallen electric pole → Safe; Tell an adult that a switch looks strange → Safe; Touch the wires of a device while it is plugged in → Not safe; Poke a pencil into a socket → Not safe; Play near an electric box or a transformer → Not safe
  8. 8. a) Using less energy to do the same work

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