The Apple International School, Dubai

Revision Paper 3
Science
Name: _____________________________________
Year : 5 Section: ___

INSTRUCTIONS:
• Spend the first five minutes to read the complete Question Paper.
• Write neatly and legibly and attempt all questions.
• Use of white ink is not allowed; a line across is sufficient to strike out.
• Revise your answers before submission.

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 1. Sam and Emily are experimenting to find the best material for building bridges.
They measure the strength of the materials by hanging weights in a bag from each
material as shown in the diagram.

Their results are shown in the table

(a) Before they started the tests, Emily said that metal would be the strongest.

What is this statement called?.........................................

(b) (i) Name ONE things they could do to make their tests fair

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(c) From their results, which is the third best material for making a bridge?

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2. Jamila and Lily are investigating how a seed grows.

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 • Jamila puts one seed in a plastic pot.
• Lily adds soil and water.
• They leave the seed to germinate.
• They look at the seed every day for 6 days.
a) Seeds need water to germinate
Write down one other thing seeds need to germinate.

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Here are the results.

b) The results are written in a table.

Describe one other way of showing the results.

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(d) Complete the sentences about the results.

The first one has been done for you.
On day 3 the root is longer than the stem

On Day 4…………………………………………………………………….

On Day 5……………………………………………………………………

3. Safia owns a motor car.

The diagram shows some of the materials used to make her car

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 a) a) Which labelled material in the diagram is attracted to a magnet?

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b) Give one reason why glass is used to make the car windscreen?

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(c) Steel is used to make the car body because it will not rust and is quite cheap.
Give one other reason why steel is suitable to make the car body.

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4. Priya is investigating seed germination. She has four dishes.

She adds some seeds to each dish.
Look at the dishes in the pictures.

(a) Priya thinks that only the seeds in dish A will germinate.
Is she correct?

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Explain your answer?

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(b) Priya repeats the investigation in the winter

The seeds do not germinate
Explain why?

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 5. A company has made a new material called ‘Wellwarm’. They want to use
‘Wellwarm’to make coats.(a) A scientist tested ‘Wellwarm’ to see how well it
insulated a beaker of hot water.
She tested ‘Wellwarm’ and three other materials as shown below.

She wrapped each beaker in a different material.

She recorded the temperature at the start and 20 minutes later.

i) What was the independent variable that the scientist changed?

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(ii) What was the dependent variable that the scientist measured during the
investigation?

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6. Draw a line from each object to the reason for using copper for

that object.Draw only three lines

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 7. Abdul put cress seeds on wet filter paper in dishes. He put 20 seeds in each dish.
Every day he added 5 cm3 of water to each dish.He kept each dish at a different
temperature.

The bar chart below shows how many seeds had germinated after two days.

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 a) Use the bar chart to answer the following questions

a) (i) How many different temperatures did Abdul use?........................

b) (ii) What was the lowest temperature Abdul used?...........................
c) iii) How many seeds had germinated at 21°C?..................................
d) iv) Abdul said 23°C was better than 21°C for seeds to germinate. Was he
correct?Tick the correct box.

v) How does the bar chart show that 22°C is the best temperature for seeds to
germinate?

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