Gateway College – Primary

1St Term Test – 2020/2021 50

Science - Year 6
Paper – 2
Duration – 45 minutes
Name: ……………………………………………………………….. Class: ………………………………
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Read the Instructions first.

 Write your name and the class in the space given above.
 Write with a dark blue or black pen.
 You may use a soft pencil for diagrams, graphs, or rough working.
 Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
 Answer all the questions.
 You should show all your working in the booklet.
 The total number of marks for this paper is 50.
 Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
 Check your answers if you have time at the end.
 This document consist 16 printed pages.

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 For Questions 1- 5 put a  in one box, to indicate your answer. If you change your mind,
put a line through the box  and then put a cross in another box.

1. Forces are useful in our day to day life. Which of the following is an example of a force?

 A. The sound from a radio

 B. A child unscrewing a bottle

 C. Rays of sunlight falling

 D. A slice of bread being toasted [1]

2. The drawing below shows a rabbit and a remote controlled toy vehicle.

What can both the rabbit and the toy do?

 A. Respiration

 B. Excretion

 C. Movement

 D. Growth [1]

3. The picture shows a bonfire. What is the substance needed for this bonfire to keep
burning?

 A. Nitrogen

 B. Hydrogen

 C. Carbon dioxide

 D. Oxygen [1]

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4. Mike did an investigation to see which cup keeps a drink cold for a long time. He tested 4
cups by adding 50ml of cool drink into each cup and keeping them out in the sunshine. He
measured the temperature of the drink after 30 minutes. His results are as below.
Cup Material Starting temperature (o c) Ending temperature (o c)
Porcelain 10 24
Polystyrene 10 18
Tin 10 29
Plastic 10 19
What is the correct order of materials, from the best insulator to the worst?

 A. polystyrene, plastic, porcelain, tin

 B. polystyrene, plastic, tin, porcelain

 C. tin, porcelain, plastic, polystyrene

 D. porcelain, polystyrene, plastic, tin [1]

5. The table below shows the properties of some materials.

Material Hard or soft Magnetic or non- magnetic Soluble or insoluble in water

K soft non- magnetic insoluble
L hard non- magnetic insoluble
M hard non- magnetic Soluble
N hard magnetic insoluble
A mixture contains material L and material N. Which method would you use to separate this
mixture?
 A. Evaporation

 B. Magnetism

 C. Sieving

 D. Filtration [1]
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6. Students of year 6 are investigating the time it takes for different substances to dissolve in
water. In their investigation,

 They use 200 cm3 of water each time to dissolve each substance.

 They stir each mixture until the substance has dissolved.

 They stir each mixture at the same speed.

 They repeat the investigation with 4 different substances.

The graph below shows their results.

80
Time in seconds

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
Salt Copper Sugar Disprin
(5g) sulphate ( 5g) Tablet
(10g) (7g)
Substance

a. Do you think that the students have done a fair test?

Yes No [1]

Use information from the graph to explain your answer?

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 b. which substance took the least time to dissolve?

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c. How long did it take for the Disprin tablet to dissolve?

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7. Some children visiting the zoo, found out details about the animals living there. They
found out about the food given to these animals, their growth and the pulse rate of
different animals.
a. What is pulse rate?

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b. What happens to the pulse – rate when the animals are allowed to run and play?

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The children chose 5 different kinds of animals as follows:

Lion, Elephant, Rabbit, Zebra and Deer

They took pulse rates of ten of each kind of animal for the investigation.

c. Why did the children take the pulse – rate of ten of each kind of animal?

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The children then calculated the average pulse-rate of each kind of animal.

 The lions’ average pulse – rate was 50bpm

 The average pulse-rate for elephants’ was 30bpm
 The rabbits had an average pulse –rate of 205 bpm
 The zebras’ average pulse – rate was 65 bpm
 The average pulse – rate for deer was 150 bpm

d. Put the above pulse –rates of the 5 animals in a table. Remember to write the
headings for the table.

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e. Use your table to complete the bar graph below to show the average pulse rate of the
above animals. You should also add labels to the axes.

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8. Shown below are some organs found in the human body. Connect the function with the
correct picture of the organ.

1 Pumps blood around the body

a

2 Mixes the food with the digestive juices

b

c 3 Filter blood to produce waste

4 Takes in oxygen and send out CO2

d

5 Controls all actions in the body

e
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9. The children of class 5 have a discussion with their physical trainer, about how forces
become useful in different types of sports.
a) Select all the things that forces can do. Tick all the answers.

1 Forces can change colour

2 Forces can stop moving objects

3 Forces can change direction

4 Forces cannot move stationary objects

5 Forces can change shape of objects [2]

b. The football players know that the speed of the moving ball can be increased by kicking
it. Mark and name the force that slows the movement of the football in the picture
below. (Or draw the football in your answer sheet and mark and name the force.)

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c. If the Goalkeeper does not allow the ball to hit the goal, mark the force he should
apply on the football. (Or draw the football in your answer sheet and mark the force)

[1]

d. The badminton players use the racquet to hit the shuttlecock. When a force is used,
the shuttlecock starts to move in the air.
d. Name the force that slows the moving shuttlecock.

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e. What force makes the shuttlecock finally reach the
ground?

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f. In a game of tug of war, if both teams use equal forces, which direction will they
move to? Circle the correct answer.

no movement [1]

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10. All matter around us fall into the 3 categories of solids, liquids and gases.

Gasoline, helium, coal, carbon dioxide, cooking oil, carbon monoxide, firewood, wax

are examples of such solids, liquids & gases. Their properties help us to separate them using a
key.

Look at the properties given in the following word key and fill in the blanks using the
materials given above.

1. (a) If they have a fixed shape go to 2

(b)If they do not have a shape go to 3

2. (a) If the material melts when heated it is ………………………………....

(b) If the material does not melt with heat go to 4

3. (a) If they have a fixed volume go to 5

(b) If they don’t have a fixed volume go to 6

4. (a) If the material is found underground it is ……………….……….…..

(b) If the material is not found underground it is ……………………………..

5. (a) If it is used to power vehicles it is ………………………..…..

(b) If it is not used in vehicles it is ……………………………..

6. (a) If it is used in photosynthesis It is ……………………………………..

(b) If it is not used in photosynthesis go to 7

7. (a) If it is produced in car fumes it is ………………………………………....

(b) If it is not produced in car fumes it is …………………………………..

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11. Safia and Chen want to investigate seed germination. They put tissue paper on 4
different dishes. They put 15 green gram seeds in each dish. First they kept the dishes
with different conditions as shown below.

Dish 2
Dish 1

Seeds in a dark
Seeds with
cupboard with
light and water
water

Dish 4
Dish 3
Seeds in a dark
Seeds with light
cupboard with no
and no water
water

Safia says, “I think that only the seeds in dish 1 will germinate”

(a) What do we call the statement Safia made?

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(b) Do you agree with her

Yes No

Explain your answer

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Then the children decided that it is better to keep the dishes at 4 different temperatures.

They added 5cm3 of water to each dish every day. They entered their results in a table, after
5 days.

Temperature of dish in ( oC ) Number of seeds that

germinated
18 8
20 10
22 15
24 07
(c) What was the best temperature for seed germination?

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(d) State one thing the children did in their 2nd investigation to make it a fair test.

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(e) Chen says “seeds do not germinate in winter.” Explain why.

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12. Five children plan out an investigation by adding sugar cubes into water and checking
the effect of temperature on the solubility.
 They dissolve sugar cubes in water, until no more dissolves.
 They count the number of sugar cubes that dissolve.
 They repeat the investigation using the same volume of water each time, but at
different temperatures.

(a) What is the Changing variable in the above investigation?

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(b) What is the variable that is measured in the above investigation?

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The children always use the same volume of water in their investigation

(c) Give a reason why they used the same volume of water each time.

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(d) Suggest another variable that could be kept the same (constant) in the above
investigation.

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The children plot their results on a graph.

6 6

5 5

4 4
Number of sugar cubes

3
2 3

2
1

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

Write the
(e) Circle onenumber
plottedofpoint
one plotted
on thepoint
graphthat does
that notnot
does fit the
fit pattern.
the pattern. [1]

(f) Suggest a mistake that the children might have made in the above investigation, to get a
result that did not fit the pattern.

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13. The plant life cycle has many stages, such as pollination, Fertilization, seed production,
seed dispersal and germination.

5
2

(a) Fill in the missing labels using the words above. [2]

(b) The picture below shows the picture of a flower. The flower has a male unit called
stamen and a female unit called carpel.

1. This is the

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2. This is the

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Label the stamen and the carpel correctly on the above flower. [1]

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14. Different substances have their own properties, which will help us to identify them
sometimes. The following table shows the properties of 5 such substances.
Is It a good
Melting point Boiling point in
substances thermal Is it magnetic?
in oc o
c
conductor?
P 1350 3000 Yes Yes
Q -82 -15 No No
R 0 110 No No
S 1735 2500 Yes Yes
T 0 100 no No

a. What happens to a substances at its melting point?

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b. The temperature of the room is 25oc. Which substance above is a gas at room
temperature?

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c. i ) Which two substances could be iron in the above table?

______________________ and ______________________ [1]

ii) Give a reason for your answer.

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d. One of the substances in the table is water. Which substance is it?

Circle the correct answer.
P Q R S T [1]

End of paper 2

Setter - Mrs. Ruwanthi Jayaweera Subject Head – Mrs. Rasangika Kapugamage

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