Reinforcement and Extension

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Science, Geography and History

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1. Draw a tree and label the parts.

branches

leaves

roots

trunk

2. Use these words to complete the sentences.

branches surroundings green light

soft water roots wood

a. Plants react to their .

b. They grow towards .

c. The roots grow towards in the ground.

d. Some stems are hard and others are .

e. Hard stems are made of .

f. Soft stems are usually .

g. Leaves grow on the stems and the .

h. fix the plant to the ground.

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The food chain ◆ Animals depend on plants for food. Plants

can make their own food. Herbivores eat plants in order to grow
and get energy. Carnivores eat herbivores. There is a chain from
plants, to herbivores that eat plants, to carnivores that eat
herbivores. This is called a food chain.

The Egyptian Vulture is an example of a carnivore. It is small

and lives in Southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Spain.
It is a scavenger, which means it eats meat from dead animals.
It also eats small rodents, amphibians and eggs from other
birds. If these eggs are very big, the Egyptian Vulture throws
stones at them to break them and eat the inside. Very few
animals are capable of using tools like this to get their food.

1. Complete the following food chain with the correct word.

human rabbit oak leaf

Plants Herbivores Carnivores

carrot a. __________ fox
grass cow b. ____________
c. __________ caterpillar blackbird

2. Reorder the letters of the jumbled words.

a. The Egyptian Vulture is a T E R A R I V T E B because it has a skeleton.

b. The Egyptian Vulture is a R E N I C A V O R because it eats other animals.

c. It is also called a E R V N C E S A G because it eats meat from dead animals.

d. It is one of the few animals capable of using L O T O S to get its food.

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c. Can a plant live without water? No, it cannot. 5. Describe the atmospheric phenomena in these
d. How much water do people need to drink every day? two photographs.
People need to drink at least one litre of water a day. Model answers:
e. How many days can we go without drinking? We can go a. It is snowing.
four days without drinking. b. There is a storm. It is raining. It is windy.
f. Can we drink water from the sea? No, we cannot.
Why / Why not? Because it has too much salt.
UNIT 9: PLANTS
g. Can you name two animals which live in water?
Open answer.
1. Draw a tree and label the parts.
2. Identify the three states of water. Circle these photos. Students draw a tree and label the branches, the leaves
Blue → liquid: a, f. Brown → solid: c, e. the roots and the trunk.
Green → gas: b, d. 2. Use these words to complete the sentences.
3. Match these words with the sentences. a. Plants react to their surroundings.
a. If we heat liquid water, it becomes water vapour: b. They grow towards light.
evaporation. c. The roots grow towards water in the ground.
b. If we cool water vapour, it becomes liquid water: d. Some stems are hard and others are soft.
condensation. e. Hard stems are made of wood.
c. If we freeze liquid water, it becomes ice: solidification. f. Soft stems are usually green.
d. If we heat ice, it becomes liquid water: melting. g. Leaves grow on the stems and the branches.

4. Label the water cycle and answer the question. h. Roots fix the plant to the ground.

Clockwise from the left: 1, 2, 3, 4. 3. Circle the incorrect word in each sentence. Write the
correct sentence.
• Where can we find water in this illustration?
Model answer: clouds, rain, river, sea. a. All plants grow very slowly.
Some plants grow very slowly.
b. Plants make food from ice, minerals and sunlight.
UNIT 8: AIR
Plants make food from water, minerals and sunlight.
1. How do we use air? Find four ways in the wordsearch. c. Plants make food in their trunks.
Across: aeroplane, sailing boat, balloon. Down: tyre. Plants make food in their leaves.
Model answers: d. Plants can move from one place to another.
Aeroplanes move through the air. Plants cannot move from one place to another.
Air pushes sailing boats through water.
4. Identify and circle the three types of plants.
Balloons move through the air.
Red → trees Orange → bushes Pink → grasses
There is air in tyres. Students circle the three trees red. They circle the two
2. Complete the paragraph. bushes orange. They circle the grass pink.

Hot air weighs less than cold air. Hot air balloons contain 5. We eat the leaves and roots of some plants. Can you
hot air. Therefore, hot air balloons go up. name any?
Model answers:
3. Match the columns.
• Leaves: lettuce, spinach.
Lower parts of the atmosphere: there is a lot of oxygen.
• Roots: carrots, beets.
Higher parts of the atmosphere: there is very little oxygen.
Outside the atmosphere: there is no oxygen and no life. 6. Do you have any plants in your house? Open answer.
• How do you take care of them? Open answer.
4. Draw arrows to illustrate the Sun’s rays.
• Label the Sun, the Earth and the atmosphere.
UNIT 10: FLOWERING PLANTS
Students draw the Sun’s rays and label the Sun,
the Earth and the atmosphere.
1. Find seven words in the wordsearch. Label the parts
• What are two functions of the atmosphere? of the flower.
It has oxygen that we need to breathe. Across: petal, sepal, ovary, stamen.
It filters the Sun’s rays so we burn less. Down: corolla, pollen, calyx.

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4. Find eleven words related to transport in the wordsearch. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
Then classify them.
Across: buses, planes, cars, runways, railways, airports.
Down: trains, stations, roads, ports, ships. UNIT 1: LIVING THINGS
• Transport by land: buses, cars, railways, trains, stations,
roads. 1. Answer these questions.
• Transport by air: planes, runways, airports. a. They live in the Arctic.
• Transport by sea: ports, ships. b. An igloo is a house made out of blocks of ice.
• Can you add another example to each type? c. Animal skins are used for clothes.
Model answer. d. Husky dogs are used to pull sleighs over the ice.
Land: lorries. Air: control tower. Sea: sailing boats.
2. Circle the correct word.
5. Answer these questions.
a. In the Arctic it is very cold.
Model answers: b. Eskimos hunt fish.
a. Which transport is the fastest? Transport by air. c. Eskimos use animal skins to make clothes.
b. Which transport is the slowest? Transport by sea.
3. A habitat in a hot climate. Match the columns.
c. Why are airports usually built far from cities? Because
Then write about Africa.
planes make a lot of noise.
a. The climate in Africa is hot and dry. (2)
d. Where do planes take off and land? They take off and
land on runways. b. People in desert areas wear clothes to protect them
from the Sun. (4)
c. Many Africans live in huts made from wood and trees
UNIT 14: WORK in villages. (1)
d. Water is very precious in Africa because there is very
1. Classify these jobs. Then add one more example to each
little rainfall. (5)
category.
e. People cultivate the land. (3)
With model answers.
Obtaining natural resources: miners, farmers, fishermen 1
foresters. UNIT 2: OUR SENSES
Transforming resources: factory workers 1 construction
workers. 1. True or false? Decide and write T or F. Correct the false
Providing services: doctors, bus drivers, bankers 1 sentences.
teachers. True sentences: c, d.
2. Answer these questions. Corrected false sentences:

a. Who makes up the active population? Working people. a. Braille helps people who can’t see.

b. When do most people retire? Most people retire when b. It was invented in 1829.
they are 65. e. You can find words written in Braille on medicine
c. What are irrigated crops? Crops which need a lot of water. packets.
Two examples: fruit and vegetables. 2. Match the two parts of each sentence.
d. What are dry crops? They are the crops which grow a. A jumper is soft. (2)
mainly with rain water.
b. A lemon is sour. (5)
Two examples: olives and some cereals.
c. Ice is cold. (4)
3. What kinds of animal farming breed these animals? d. Boiling water is hot. (1)
cattle farming, poultry farming, equine farming e. Chocolate is sweet. (3)
4. Look at these photographs of factories. What is being
made? UNIT 3: OUR BODY
a. textiles
b. biscuits 1. Which of these activities are good for us? Write good
or bad.
c. cars
d. fruit juice Good - swimming, drinking milk, eating fruit and
vegetables.
5. Answer these questions. Bad - eating sweets everyday, sleeping very little, carrying
Open answers. heavy books.

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