Science Quiz

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Science Quiz

• Year 6 SATS Revision

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Keeping Healthy

• 1. Which organ controls our bodies?
• 2. What type of material is the heart made out
  of?
• 3. What do our lungs do?
• 4. How does blood travel around our bodies?
• 5. Why do we need muscles?
• 6. Give 3 purposes of the skeleton.
• 7. Which organ cleans the blood and gets rid of
  waste?
• 8. What effect would smoking have on our bodies?
• 9. Name the three different types of teeth.
• 10. Give two ways to protect your teeth.

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Eating Healthily

• 1. What is a balanced diet?
• 2. Why should we drink lots of water?
• 3. What effect would lots of fizzy drinks have on
  our bodies?
• 4. A) What do carbohydrates provide us with?
• B) Which foods contain carbohydrates?
• 5. Give an example of a food that contains
  protein.
• 6. What do fruit and vegetables provide us with?
• 7. Why do we need to eat some fats?
• 8. What is fibre and which foods provide us with
  fibre?
• 9. Which is healthier - butter or margarine?
• 10. Which is healthier - brown bread or white
  bread?

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Earth and Space

• 1. What shape are the Sun, Earth and Moon?
• 2. A) What does the Earth orbit around?
• B) How long does it take?
• 3. What does the moon orbit around and how long
  does it take?
• 4. Put in order of size, smallest to largest the
  Earth, Sun and Moon.
• 5. How long does it take for the Earth to rotate
  once?
• 6. What causes day and night?
• 7. Is it night time for Australia and England at
  the same time? Why?
• 8. Does the Sun move around the Earth?

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Forces

• 1. What is the name of the force that pulls
  objects down towards the Earth?
• 2. What are forces measured in?
• 3. What will happen in a game of tug of war if
  both sides apply the same force?
• 4. What is friction?
• 5. Which would provide greater friction - carpet
  or lino?
• 6. What does Air Resistance do?
• 7. How do birds fly is gravity os pulling them to
  the ground?
• 8. Which poles on a magnet attract?
• 9. Which poles on a magnet will repel?
• 10. Provide an example of a MAGNETIC material.

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Electricity

• 1. What is the circuit symbol for a bulb?
• 2. How could you make a bulb in a circuit
  brighter?
• 3. What happens if a switch is left open?
• 4. What could happen is there was too much power
  in a circuit?
• 5. What is a conductor?
• 6. Give an example of a conductive material.
• 7. What is an insulator?
• 8. Why is plastic used to cover electrical
  cables?
• 9. What could happen if a hair-drier was used in
  a bathroom?
• 10. Why should you not fly a kite near
  electricity pylons?

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Materials

• 1. Name the 3 categories of materials
• 2. Write down two materials which fit into each
  category.
• 3. Describe an irreversible change.
• 4. Give an example of an irreversible change.
• 5. How would you separate sand, salt and water?
• 6. How does a tumble drier dry clothes?
• 7. When cooking, what is the process that happens
  when water droplets gather on the window?
• 8. What happens when sugar is mixed with warm
  water?
• 9. What is the mixture called?
• 10. Is sugar soluable or insoluable?

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Habitats

• 1. What is a habitat?
• 2. Why do birds choose trees for their habitats?
  2 reasons
• 3. Why do frogs live in ponds? Give 2 reasons
• 4. How are otters adapted for their habitats?
• 5. How are seals adapted to living in cold
  conditions?
• 6. What is a producer?
• 7. In the food chain,
• rose plant green fly blue tit hawk
• A) What is the hawk?
• B) which are the consumers?
• C) Which are the prey?

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Life Cycles

• 1. How do frogs begin their lives?
• 2. What are the five main stages of the human
  life cycle?
• 3. In plants, what is germination?
• 4. What is the process called when a bee
  transfers pollen from one plant to another?
• 5. Name 3 different methods of seed dispersal.
• 6. How are plants fertilised?
• 7. What are the male and female parts of a plant
  called?
• 8. What are the 2 functions of plant roots?
• 9. Why are petals brightly coloured?
• 10. What do the leaves do?