Essential science 4 TESTS AND ASSESSMENT 4

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Page Assessment Worksheets

1 1 Animals and plants . 2

1 2 Food 4

1 3 Breathing 6

1 4 Men and women . 8

1 5 Life cycles . 10

1 6 The universe . 12

1 7 Minerals 14

1 8 Ecosystems 16

1 9 Light 18

10 Materials 20

11 Where do we live? 22

12 Oceans and continents 24

13 Government and society . 26

14 The Romans . 28

Term Assessment • First Term Units 1-5 30

• Second Term Units 6-10 32

• Third Term Units 11-14 34

Tests and assessment

Essential Science

3 Tick the true sentences.

a Aquatic animals live in water

b All animals eat plants.

c Some animals look for food at night

d Some animals live in hot places.

e In cold places, animals have thick fur or fat under their skins.

4 Write a word to match the definition.

a A plant which needs very little water:

b A plant which needs a lot of water:

c A plant which lives in water:

d A plant which needs very little light:

1 Living things

5 Match the three columns.

6 Use the information and write about the dinosaurs Add information if you can.

Name Date

2 Food

1 Classify the foods.

2 True or false? Write T or F.

a A balanced diet gives us the right quantity of each type of food.

b Everybody needs the same quantity of food.

c We need milk because it gives us energy.

d If we do a lot of exercise, we need to eat more.

e It is very important to have a good breakfast because

we need energy in the morning

f Meat and fish give us proteins.

They give us energy and calcium, necessary for bones and muscles

They have proteins to help us grow

They contain vitamins and minerals

They give us energy

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olive oil milk

cheese chocolate

3 Label the picture.

digestion faeces gastric juiceanus blood intestine mouth

4 Complete the sentences using the words below.

a Digestion begins in the , where food is chewed and mixed with saliva

b In the stomach, food is mixed with This mixture passes into the small intestine

c. ends in the small intestine

d The useful parts of our food go from our small intestine into

the

e The parts of food that we cannot use go into the large

stomach oesophagus small intestinemouth large intestine anus

Name Date

1 Label the picture.

3 Breathing

nostrils left lung trachea nose

bronchial tube right lung

2 Order the sequence Write 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.

a Oxygen from the air passes through the walls of our lungs into our blood

b The air passes through the nostrils

c Then it goes into the lungs

d Air enters our body through the nose and mouth

e It goes down through the trachea and the bronchial tubes

3 True or false? Write T or F.

a Blood carries oxygen and the substances from digestion to different

parts of our body

b The respiratory system is responsible for blood circulation

c Each time our heart beats, it pushes blood to all the organs in our body.

d Blood circulates around our body inside blood vessels.

e Capillaries carry the blood from the heart to the rest of our body.

4 Label the picture.

5 Match the two columns.

Urine Blood leaves the heart through them

Circulation These organs filter the blood

Excretion Blood returns to the heart through them

Veins It is stored in the bladder

Heart

kidney renal artery bladder renal vein

uterus prostate ovaries vulva penis vagina testicles

1 Decide if the sentences refer to women or men Write W or M.

a They make eggs

b They have a penis and testicles

c They have a vagina, uterus and ovaries.

d They make sperm

e They have a prostate gland.

f They have a vulva

2 Label the diagrams.

4 Men and women

3 Complete the sentences.

a Pregnancy is the formation of a baby in its

b Pregnancy lasts for about

c At three months, foetuses measure about centimetres

d A baby is connected to the mother by the

e When a baby is born, it is about centimetres long

4 Tick the true sentences.

a Babies start to talk when they are three years old.

b They start to crawl when they are a few months old.

c They walk when they are about fourteen months old.

d They start to eat solid food when they are about two months old.

5 Match the two columns.

6 Number the living things from the shortest life to the longest life.

Childhood The body continues growing, and sex

Name Date

1 Complete the paragraph.

5 Life cycles

oviparous womb viviparous eggs

Mammals are animals They are born from their mother’s Birds and other vertebrates are born

2 The life cycle of a butterfly Order the sequence Write 1, 2, 3 or 4.

a The larva stays still while its skin becomes hard.

b A larva comes out of each egg.

c The pupa opens and a butterfly comes out.

d The adult female butterfly lays eggs.

3 True or false? Write T or F.

a Herbivores eat plants and animals.

b Animals digest their food.

c. The waste is transformed into faeces

d.Insects breathe through their lungs

e. Fish collect oxygen from the water through their gills

f. Dolphins breathe through their gills

4 Label the pictures.

5 What do plants reproduce from?

6 Order the stages of plant nutrition Write 1, 2, 3 or 4.

a. In the leaves, the raw sap is transformed into elaborated sap

b.The roots absorb water and mineral salts from the soil, making raw sap

c. The elaborated sap travels from the leaves to the other parts of the plant, where it is used or stored

d.The raw sap travels up the stem to the leaves

stem tuber roots flower

bulb leaf

A star

A comet

is the Earth’s only satellite

is a luminous astronomical body

is a very big yellow star that gives offlight and heat

is an astronomic body that orbits theSun and has a bright tail

is an astronomical body that orbits around the Sun

is an astronomical body that orbits

a planet

2 Name the planets Then complete the sentence

There are planets that orbit the

in the Solar System

3 Orbit or rotation? Read the sentences and decide.

a The Earth spins on its own axis.

b It takes about 365 days.

c It causes the seasons.

d It takes 24 hours.

e It causes day and night.

f The Earth moves around the Sun.

Mercur¥,

4 Which celestial body? Read and guess.

a A luminous astronomical body:

b An astronomical body that orbits the Sun and has a tail:

c An astronomical body that orbits a planet:

d An astronomical body that orbits a star:

e The planet nearest to the Sun:

f The farthest planet from the Sun:

5 Identify the season Then match the pictures and the seasons.

a It begins in March and ends in June.

b It begins in September and ends in December.

c It begins in December and ends in March.

d It begins in June and ends in September.

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3

2

4

Name Date

1 Write three places where we can find minerals.

2 Circle the minerals.

3 Complete the sentences with the words.

a Slate, marble and granite are used for

b We dig to obtain rocks that are under the ground

c We use minerals like diamonds to make

d The Ancient Egyptians used granite to make

f We dig to obtain rocks that are on the surface

7 Minerals

fuel building jewellery sculptures mines quarries

4 Draw when needed and colour the following things in the layers of the ground.

big rocks rocks

a mole ants sand and soil a snail plants flowers

5 Tick the true sentences.

a Humus is the remains of living things.

b Very poor ground is mainly made up of rocks.

light blue

pink

red black purple dark blue

green

dark brown grey light brown

Name Date

1 True or false? Write T or F.

a Plants need water and light to survive.

b Beech trees grow in dry places.

c An ecosystem is a place and the living things that live there.

d All ecosystems are big.

2 Who eats what? Number the pictures, 1, 2 and 3 Then write sentences.

3 Circle the odd one out.

a trees / bushes / spiders / grass

b spiders / owls / worms / ants

c lions / rabbits / mice / worms

d squirrels / deer / lizards / wolves

A

B

eagle grass rabbit

gazelle bush lion

4 Match the animals and their habitats.

5 Write the names of things that live in the sea.

a The most common plant:

near the coast on the high sea in the deep sea

Birds

TreesEarthworms

LizardsSpidersBeesSquirrelsAnts

BushesGrassUnder the ground

Name Date

1 Write the missing colours of the rainbow.

red yellow green blue

2 Tick the true sentences.

a Light moves in a straight line.

b Light moves very slowly.

c All objects let light through.

d The shadow of an object is always formed

on the opposite side to the source of light

3 Transparent, translucent or opaque? Classify the objects.

4 Match the photos with their descriptions.

5 Answer the questions.

a What happens when we touch a hot object?

b Why does food cool on a plate?

glass plastic

iron

6 Circle the conductors in red and the insulators in blue.

A natural luminous body

An artificial luminous body

A non-luminous body

a

b

c

Name Date

1 Match.

2 Use the words to complete the sentences.

a Leather can be folded It is

b Rubber can be squashed but later recovers its shape It is

c Concrete can carry heavy weights It is

d Pottery breaks easily It is

3 Are they simple machines or complex machines? Write S or C.

4 Match the words with the definitions.

a This machine is used for moving objects up and down:

b This machine is a wheel with a rope around it:

c This machine is used for lifting heavy objects:

5 Write the names of four complex machines.

ramp lever pulley

1 Number the following from smallest to biggest.

a province b settlement c region d municipality

2 Match the two columns and then copy the sentences.

A region is

3 Complete the sentence.

My Autonomous Community / Autonomous City is called

and it has province/s The capital is The municipality where I live is called

In my Autonomous Community we speak language/s

11 Where do we live?

is a village, town or city

is made up of a settlement and theland around it

is made up of municipalities that arenear each other

A municipality is bigger than a region and made up

of many municipalities

A province

A settlement

A region

4 Tick the true sentences.

a.Spain is organised into seventeen Autonomous Communities and two Autonomous Cities

b.Each Autonomous Community has its own government

c.The Autonomous Communities each have one province

d.Some Communities have more than one official language

5 Label the following places and seas on the map.

Spain France Portugal MoroccoBalearic Islands Canary Islands Ceuta Melilla

Mediterranean Sea Atlantic Ocean

Name Date

1 Write the names of the continents and oceans in the correct place on the map.

12 Oceans and continents

Asia Pacific Africa Atlantic America IndianOceania Arctic Europe Antarctic Antarctica

2 Use the words to complete the sentences.

a. are huge extensions of salt water

b Very big seas are called

c The solid part of the Earth is made up of the and the bottom

of the oceans

Seas oceans continents

4 Complete the answers to the questions.

a Where is the Arctic Ocean?

b Where is the Antarctic Ocean?

5 Write the names of six European countries.

6 Tick the true sentences.

a Europe is a small continent.

b Europe is connected to America in the east.

c Europe is very close to Africa.

d Luxembourg is a very big country.

e The landscape in most of Europe is made up of plains.

3 Complete the sentences with the words below.

a America is the continent

b Oceania is the continent

c Africa is the continent

d Asia is the continent

biggest hottest longest smallest

1 Match the words with the descriptions.

13 Government and society

King mayors councillors Government

a They take important decisions about the municipality:

b It is made up of the President and the Ministers:

c He is the Head of State:

d They organise services like security and traffic:

2 Match.

3 Tick the true sentences.

a The mass media give us news and information.

b Actors and actresses work in the press.

c Radio needs sound technicians.

d Radio uses moving images and sound.

e Internet uses text, photos, images and sound.

It is responsible for administeringand defending the State

They guarantee that the laws

of the State are obeyed

The Courts of Justice It writes the laws for the

4 Circle the people who work in the service sector.

5 Write three places where people in the service sector work.

6 Complete the sentences with the words.

a. are people who travel to other places to learn about them, to have a good time or to rest

Producers Salespeople Tourists

1 Label the picture with the following words.

built cities surrounded by walls

built great cathedrals and monasteries.had big castles

came from North Africa

3 Tick the true sentences.

a America was discovered 200 years ago.

b It was a new continent for Europeans.

c There were new plants there, like tomatoes and potatoes.

4 Write three inventions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

5 Draw a picture of a person and an object from the past Label them.

Assessment Units 1-5

1 Tick the true sentences.

a Animals in hot places look for food during the day.

b Animals in cold places have thick fur or fat under their skins.

c Most plants need a warm temperature.

d Dinosaurs disappeared about five hundred years ago.

2 Match the words with the definitions.

a These plants live in water:

b These plants need a lot of water:

c This plant only needs a little water:

3 Write the name of each type of food.

a Food which helps us to grow:

b Food which gives us energy:

c Food which gives us vitamins:

d Food which gives us calcium:

4 Describe the digestive process.

7 Write the names of two animals for each case.

Viviparous animals: and Oviparous animals: and

8 Order the stages of plant reproduction Write 1, 2, 3 or 4.

a The seed opens and a root grows down into the soil

b Finally, a small stem grows

c The seeds fall to the ground

d Then, the seed absorbs water from the soil

5 Which system is it? Decide and write C, R or E.

Circulatory system Respiratory system Excretory system

a The body obtains oxygen from the air.

b Blood is cleaned and waste substances are eliminated.

c Blood flows through the body and distributes oxygen and nutrients.

6 Match the words with the systems.

Assessment Units 6-10

1 Which astronomical body is it? Read and answer.

a Astronomical bodies that orbit planets:

b Luminous astronomical bodies that produce heat and light:

2 Answer the questions.

a How long does it take the Earth to rotate on its axis?

b How long does it take the Earth to orbit around the Sun?

c Which season comes between summer and winter?

d Which season comes between winter and summer?

3 Tick the true sentences.

a Minerals can be part of rocks, animal bones and shells.

b Diamond is the softest mineral.

c We dig mines to obtain rocks from under the ground.

d Granite is made up of two different minerals.

e Granite is used for building.

4 Number the steps in the food chain Write 1, 2 or 3.

a A carnivore eats the herbivore.

b The plant makes its own food.

c A herbivore eats the plant.

5 Write an example of each of the following.

6 Circle the correct answer.

a Light moves in a circle / straight line.

b Light moves very quickly / slowly.

c Objects which allow some light to pass through them are translucent /

transparent

d Materials which get hot and cold quickly are conductors / insulators.

e Wood and plastic are conductors / insulators.

7 Write two examples of each material.

Natural materials: and Artificial materials: and

8 Complete the definition.

A is an object that helps us to do a task and saves us time and effort I can be or

9 Use the words to complete the sentences.

a A is a wheel with a rope around it

b A is used for lifting heavy objects

ramp lever pulley