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Unit 4 Earth
1 a D
b B and C
c A and B
d A and D
2 Fish – gills
Beat – thick fur
Eagle – claws
Giraffe – long neck
Bird – wings
Monkey – hands
3 a Crust
b Energy
c Waves
4 a Pacific
b Japan
5 Any two from:
Tree to climb
Leaves and fruit to eat
A warm place inside when it is cold outside
Other chimpanzees to socialise with
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Unit 5 Light
1 a Rays
b Book
c Eyes
d Line from the lamp to the book with an arrow pointing to book.
Line from the book to one of Arun’s eyes with an arrow pointing to his eye.
2 a The mirror
b The surface is shiny/smooth/polished
c The wood
d The surface is rough/uneven
3 a A: Sun
B: Mercury
C: Jupiter
D: Saturn
E: Neptune
b Orbits
c Asteroids
d The Earth spinning on its axis.
e 24 hours
4 a Shorter
b Longer
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Unit 6 Electricity
1 Circle glass, cork, plastic
2 a Battery
Lamp (in lamp holder)
Switch
Connecting wire
b Close the switch
c More dimly
d More brightly
3 a Any three from: metal spring, metal switch contacts, metal lamp filament,
metal lamp contact
b The plastic casing and/or the plastic switch
c This is the part of the flashlight you hold/move to turn the flashlight on and off
d Slide the switch closed
e Glass is an electrical insulator so it is safe to touch it.
The glass is transparent so the light passes through it.
4 a Sea water contains salts
b Pure water/distilled water
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Mid-point test
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1 a C
b A
c B
d H
2 a Muscles
b The muscles contract and pull on our bones to make use move.
3 A Tiger
B Parrot
C Shark
D Crocodile
4 a Electrical energy → movement + sound
b Movement → sound (+ heat)
5 a A living thing/plant that can make its own food
b Algae → prawn → sea turtle
c Sea turtle
d Prawn
6 a B d C
b C e D
c A
7 a The iron nail in water
b 12 days
c No, more than one factor was changed / the nails were not all tested in the
same way / the nails were placed in different substances.
d Metal, air and water
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End-of-year test
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1 a From top to bottom: crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
b Inner core
c Mantle
d The Earth is shaped like a ball.
The diagram clearly shows the layers inside the Earth.
2 Missing words are skeleton, pull, pairs, contracts, relaxes
3 a Underline Copper, Seawater, Aluminium, Steel
b Less brightly than before
c More brightly than before
d The same as before
4 a The time taken for the bead to drop off the spoon
b The temperature
c 8 minutes
d It takes less time for the bead to drop off the spoon as the temperature increases (or similar)
e The water gains energy as it is heated. This means the water has more energy that can be
transferred/move to the spoon to make the bead fall off quicker.
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Award marks for: correct ray and arrow for arriving ray, correct label for arriving ray;
correct ray and arrow for reflecting ray, correct label for reflecting ray.
6 a A: Magma
B: Earth’s crust
C: Secondary cone
D: Crater
b Composite volcano
7 Shape of beak Short Long Flat Pointed Hooked
A bird that lives next to ✓ ✓
a river and eats fish
A bird that lives in ✓ ✓
grassland and eats
seeds
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8 a A substance is a pure type of solid, liquid or gas.
b B
9 a The point on the Earth’s surface above the focus which is where the earthquake begins.
b A tsunami is a huge sea wave.
c The tsunami will flood the coast and people can drown.
d Japan is on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
10 a The Earth is spinning on its axis.
b Day and night
d The sides facing away from the Sun are having night.
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