Grade 2 Science practice sheet
Manitoba Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
What should you do if you spill water during an experiment?
- Tell your teacher and wipe it up
- Hide it under paper
- Leave it
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Tell your teacher and wipe it up
Hint: Spills can make the floor slippery, so clean them up safely.
Question 2
A rubber ball is…
- 💨a gas
- 💧a liquid
- ⚽a solid
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⚽ a solid
Hint: A ball keeps its shape, so it is a solid.
Question 3
Put the water cycle in order. Start with the sun warming the water.
- 🌊Water collects in rivers and oceans
- 🌧️Rain or snow falls
- ☁️Clouds form
- ☀️Sun warms water and it rises
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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 4
Which clothing is best for a rainy day?
- a sun hat
- a raincoat and boots
- a swimsuit
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a raincoat and boots
Hint: Rain gear keeps us dry.
Question 5
A balloon is blown up. What does the balloon show?
🎈- Air takes up space
- Air has no weight and no space
- Air is a liquid
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Air takes up space
Hint: The balloon gets bigger because air fills it.
Question 6
Which of these do plants need to grow?
- candy
- sunlight, water and air
- snow only
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sunlight, water and air
Hint: Plants use light, water and air.
Question 7
Put the butterfly's life cycle in order.
- 🐛caterpillar
- chrysalis
- 🦋butterfly
- 🥚egg
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egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → butterfly
Hint: It starts as a tiny egg on a leaf. A caterpillar hatches, makes a chrysalis, then comes out as a butterfly.
Question 8
A scientist tests one thing at a time. Why?
- So the room is quiet
- So it takes longer
- So they know what caused the result
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So they know what caused the result
Hint: A fair test changes only one thing so we know what made the difference.
Question 9
What happens to water in the freezer?
❄️- 💨It disappears
- 🧃It turns into juice
- 🧊It freezes into ice
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🧊 It freezes into ice
Hint: Cold makes water freeze. The liquid becomes a solid.
Question 10
Does it save water or waste water?
Sort into: 👍 saves water · 👎 wastes water
- 🪣collect rain for plants
- 🛁take a really full bath
- 🚰let the tap drip
- 🪥turn off the tap while brushing
- 💦leave the hose running
- 🚿take a short shower
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👍 saves water: collect rain for plants, turn off the tap while brushing, take a short shower · 👎 wastes water: take a really full bath, let the tap drip, leave the hose running
Hint: Using only the water you need saves it. Leaving water running wastes it.
Answer key
- 1. Tell your teacher and wipe it up (Think Like a Scientist)
- 2. ⚽ a solid (Solids & Liquids)
- 3. Sun warms water and it rises → Clouds form → Rain or snow falls → Water collects in rivers and oceans (Water World)
- 4. a raincoat and boots (Air and Weather)
- 5. Air takes up space (Air & Water for Life)
- 6. sunlight, water and air (Plants, Animals and Energy)
- 7. egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → butterfly (Life Cycles)
- 8. So they know what caused the result (Think Like a Scientist)
- 9. 🧊 It freezes into ice (Solids & Liquids)
- 10. 👍 saves water: collect rain for plants, turn off the tap while brushing, take a short shower · 👎 wastes water: take a really full bath, let the tap drip, leave the hose running (Water World)
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