YEAR 6 SCIENCE TIME: 45 minutes Sample Paper

[Pages:4]YEAR 6

DEPARTMENT FOR CURRICULUM, RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING

Directorate for Learning and Assessment Programmes Educational Assessment Unit

Annual Examinations for Primary Schools 2018

SCIENCE Sample Paper

TIME: 45 minutes

School: _____________________________________________________

Name: _____________________________

Class: ______________

1. Look at the food plate and complete the table on the right. a) Match the different food items to A, B, C, D or E.

An example has been done for you.

A

fruit

C

vegetables

B

bread/cereal

D

meat

E

milk/cheese

C carrots chicken cabbage rice yoghurt strawberries

(5 marks)

b) Explain why it is important to keep a balanced diet. _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ (2 marks)

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2. Match each sentence in Column A to the correct word in Column B. The first one is done as an example.

Column A

Column B

a. I give humans energy.

sun

b. I slow down a falling object.

gravity

c. I break a circuit.

moon

d. I magnify images of objects. a food

e. I give plants energy. I appear to have different

f. shapes. g. I pull objects to the ground.

lens air resistance switch

3. Some materials can occur naturally and others are man-made.

(6 marks)

a) Look at the pictures below and write the name of the material produced by each.

tree _________________

lamb __________________

b) List three man-made materials.

quarry __________________

(3 marks)

i. ___________________________ ii. ___________________________ iii. ___________________________

(3 marks)

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rainfall (in millimeters)

4. The bar chart below shows the monthly rainfall over a whole year.

Monthly rainfall for Year 2017

90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10

0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

rainfall (mm) 18 10 9 7 7 6 6 3 50 82 54 35

months

a) Which month has the highest rainfall? _______________________ (1 mark)

b) Fill in the missing amount of rainfall for the month of December in the bar chart

above.

(1 mark)

c) Calculate the difference in rainfall between October and August. ____ (2 marks)

d) Tick () the weather instrument which measures rainfall.

(1 mark) e) Explain the problems farmers might face during the month of August. _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ (2 marks)

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5. Materials can absorb or reflect sound. Look at the picture below. Two children are on either side of a wall.

wall material

a) Tick () the best material that can be used to reflect the sound of the girl's voice.

plastic

paper

metal

(1 mark)

b) John is doing an experiment to investigate how to reduce the sound made by an alarm clock. He puts the alarm clock in a box and wraps some material around it.

i. Tick () the best material that can be used to reduce the sound of the alarm clock.

cotton wool

cardboard

foil

(1 mark)

ii. What should John do to make the experiment a fair test?

_____________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________ (2 marks)

END OF PAPER

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