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Grade 5 Science practice sheet

Ontario 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

    A turtle's shell helps protect it from which kind of force?

    • Being pressed or crushed
    • Being heated by the Sun
    • Being stretched like a rubber band
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    Being pressed or crushed

    Hint: The domed, hard shell spreads out a squeezing force.

  9. Question 9

    You rub your hands together and they feel warm. Kinetic energy changed into…

    • light energy
    • chemical energy
    • thermal energy
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    thermal energy

    Hint: Friction turns motion into heat.

  10. Question 10

    Which of these is a fossil fuel?

    • Wind
    • Sunlight
    • Coal
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    Coal

    Hint: Fossil fuels formed from ancient plants and animals.

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. Being pressed or crushed (Forces on Structures)
  9. 9. thermal energy (Forms of Energy)
  10. 10. Coal (Energy Sources)

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