CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCIENCE 6: END-OF-YEAR TEST

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Cambridge Assessment International Education.

End-of-year test
1 Match up the words 1–8 with their meanings A–H.

Word Meaning

1 waxing A air, water, land and living things around us

2 product B when light shines off a surface

3 environment C living things that can cause diseases

D the time when the lit up part of the Moon

4 mould
becomes larger over a period of days

E a feature of a substance that helps us to

5 reflection
identify it

F a new substance that forms in a chemical

6 toxic
reaction

G a fossil formed when an animal dies and

7 property
leaves an imprint in the sediments

8 bacteria H harmful or poisonous

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2 Tick (✓) the correct answer A, B or C to each question.

a Which of the following best describes a fossil?

A: A fossil is a dead animal crystallised in rock.

B: A fossil is an imprint of a plant or animal in rock.

C: A fossil is the remains of a plant or animal preserved in rock.

b Which of the following describes how an object floats?

A: An object floats because the mass of liquid it displaces is less than

or equal to the mass of the object.
B: An object floats because it has a small mass.

C: An object floats because it has a large area in contact with the liquid.

c Which of the following happens when we exhale?

A: The diaphragm muscle contracts and moves upwards.

B: The diaphragm muscle contracts and moves downwards.

C: The diaphragm muscle relaxes and moves upwards.

d Which of the following is not a body change that occurs in puberty?

A: More body hair grows.

B: Hair grows faster.

C: Hair becomes more oily.

e Which of the following is evidence of a chemical reaction?

A: A change in temperature.

B: A change in mass.

C: A change of state.

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f Which of the following statements about burning is true?

A: Burning is a reversible physical change.

B: Burning is an irreversible physical change.

C: Burning is an irreversible chemical change.

g Which statement describes loam?

A: Loam is a type of sedimentary rock.

B: Loam is a balanced soil consisting of sand, clay and organic matter.

C: Loam is organic matter such as dead leaves and twigs.

3 Name each of the parts of the body described.

a A muscle that pumps blood around the body: _______________

b Carries air from the nose and mouth to the lungs: _______________

c Make male sex cells: _______________

d Where a baby grows and develops: _______________

e Makes acid to kill germs in our food: _______________

f Stops germs from entering the body: _______________

4 A ball rolls down a rocky slope and rests against a tree at the bottom of the slope.
a What effect does the rocky slope have on the ball as it rolls down?

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b What effect does the tree have on the ball?

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Marcus bounces a ball off the ground and catches it.

c What effect does bouncing have on the ball?

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d What effect does catching the ball have on the ball?

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a Which lamps will light up in Circuit 1?

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b Explain why.

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c What type of circuit is Circuit 1?

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d What type of circuit is Circuit 2?

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e Which lamp or lamps will light up in Circuit 2?

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f List TWO ways in which you could change Circuit 1 to make the lamps shine brighter.

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6 The drawing shows a food web.

a Name the source of energy for the food web.

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b How is energy transferred through the food web?

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c Name two herbivores in the food web.

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d Use the food web to draw a food chain with three links that includes an omnivore.

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e Use the food web to draw a food chain with four links.

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f Explain why food chains do not usually have more than four or five links.

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a Reflection is shown in Diagram _______________

b Refraction is shown in Diagram _______________

c Identify ray C: _______________

d Identify the surface X: _______________

e Name the dotted line in A: _______________

f Angles c and d are: _______________

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a Are the rocks in the picture igneous or sedimentary?

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b Give a reason for your answer.

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c What type of metamorphic rock could this rock become?

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d Name two events that could cause the rock to become metamorphosed.

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9 Zara and Sofia investigated the mass and weight of different foods.
They put each food in turn in the same shopping bag. Here are their results.

Food Mass (kg) Weight (N)

Bag of potatoes 2 20

Bag of rice 1 10

Bag of flour 1.5 14

Bag of oranges 3.5 35

a What instrument did Zara and Sofia use to measure the weight of the foods?

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b How did Zara and Sofia make their test fair?

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c Identify a pattern in their results.

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d Which result does not fit the pattern?

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e What should Zara and Sofia do to correct this measurement?

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f Suppose Zara and Sofia could do this investigation on the Moon.
How would their results be different?

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g Explain the difference.

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10 Arun measured his group’s breathing rate. He collected two sets of data.

Person Breathing rate 1 Breathing rate 2

Arun 15 28

Marcus 14 30

Kai 15 29

Jamal 16 30

a Explain what breathing rate is.

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b Which set of data shows breathing rate during exercise?

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c Why does breathing rate change during exercise?

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d Arun says his results are reliable. What does this mean?

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