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  • Water — the essence of life
  • Energy — how things work

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Water — the essence of life

Name the forms water takes, follow it round the water cycle, tell groundwater from surface water, and recognize 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.Match each freshwater creature to what the information card says about it.

    • Dragonfly
    • Water scorpion
    • Pond heron
    • Freshwater turtle
    • Water snake
    • stands still to catch fish
    • eats fish and frogs
    • breathes through a tail tube
    • eats mosquitoes
    • has a soft shell

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

    Groups: Solid · Liquid · Vapor

    • Rain
    • Steam
    • Ice
    • Snow

  3. 3.Water rises as vapor, 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.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

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

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

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

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

  8. 8.The water cycle goes round and round with no true beginning, so start it where the Sun's heat turns water into vapor and put the stages in order from there.

    • The Sun's heat turns water into vapor
    • Water goes back to rivers, lakes and oceans
    • Rain, snow and hail come down
    • The vapor forms clouds

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Grade 5 Science · 2 of 2

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.How does the chapter describe what energy is?

    • a) The electricity that comes through a wire into a house
    • b) A fuel that has to be burned before it can be used
    • c) What makes things move, light up, produce sound, do work and change temperature
    • d) Something found in food and nowhere else

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

    Groups: Safe · Not safe

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

  3. 3.Two cups of water are filled at the same time, one left in the sunlight and one in the shade. Twenty minutes later the sunlit one is warmer. What does that show?

    • a) Water is cooler when it is kept still
    • b) A cup in the sun holds less water than one in the shade
    • c) Water in the shade loses its heat to the ground
    • d) Sunlight gives us heat energy

  4. 4.This house draws on three natural sources of energy. Tap the one that works because the wind is blowing.

    Write the number of the part.

    1234

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

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

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

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

  7. 7.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) The heat from the animals keeps the rooms above warm in winter
    • c) It leaves the upper floor free for storing firewood
    • d) It is easier to carry water to the animals that way

  8. 8.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?

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Answer keys — Grade 5 Science

In the same order as the worksheets.

Water — the essence of life

  1. 1. Dragonfly → eats mosquitoes; Water scorpion → breathes through a tail tube; Pond heron → stands still to catch fish; Freshwater turtle → has a soft shell; Water snake → eats fish and frogs
  2. 2. Ice → Solid; Snow → Solid; Rain → Liquid; Steam → Vapor
  3. 3.
    • water cycle
    • the water cycle
  4. 4. 4 — Groundwater
  5. 5. 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
  6. 6. c) Drawing up water stored under the ground
  7. 7.
    • groundwater
    • ground water
  8. 8. 1. The Sun's heat turns water into vapor 2. The vapor forms clouds 3. Rain, snow and hail come down 4. Water goes back to rivers, lakes and oceans

Energy — how things work

  1. 1. c) What makes things move, light up, produce sound, do work and change temperature
  2. 2. 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
  3. 3. d) Sunlight gives us heat energy
  4. 4. 2 — The windmill
  5. 5. d) Food
  6. 6. a) Sound energy
  7. 7. b) The heat from the animals keeps the rooms above warm in winter
  8. 8. clean energy

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