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Year Six Science Assessment

1) Mammals are warm-blooded, have fur or hair, don't lay eggs and give

milk to their babies.

Put a tick or cross in each box if the animal shown is a mammal or not.

Chicken Deer Snake

Polar Bear Giraffe Crocodile

2) Draw a food chain in the box, using the information below. (You do not need

to spend time drawing the animals, if you wish, just write their names in the

boxes.)

Order can be reversed but arrows must be also

y

y

n

n n

y

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3) Carefully read through the questions on this dichotomous key. Use the key

to identify the wasp in the picture (or on display)

PICTURE CAN BE DISPLAY ON IWB IF COLOUR PRINTING IS NOT PRACTICAL (OR A

SHEET OF WASPS PRINTED (ABOUT 20 PER PAGE AND THEN GLUED IN BY

CHILDREN)

YES NO

EVENLY SPACED STRIPES?

FIELD DIGGER WASP

HORNET

SPOTS ON ABDOMEN (BODY)?

GERMAN WASP COMMON WASP

BRIGHT YELLOW AND BLACK?

YES NO

NOYES

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4) All living things can be identified by seven key signs - seven things that all

living things do. Mrs Gren was a way to remember them!. Write down four of

them here - you will be given extra credit for using the correct scientific terms!

FOUR FROM:

MOVE, REPRODUCE, SENSE, GROW, RESPIRE, EXCRETE, NUTRITION (or variants

thereof)

Allow 'Breathe', 'Breed' etc but point out these are specific to certain organisms

and don't apply to all living things and are not the 'technical' words.

5) Tick the best habitat for each of these living things…

rabbit hutch pond field

Penguin pond desert ice-cap

Lion zoo jungle savanna

Dragonfly pond ice-cap zoo

The wasp is a GERMAN WASP

y

y

y

y

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6) a) Label this polar bear to show 2 adaptations that help it survive in its

environment.

2 FROM: Thick fur (for warmth), small ears (for warmth), forward facing eyes (to

hunt), white fur (for camouflage), large flat paws (to walk on snow) or any other

reasonable adaptation… (no need for children to give reasons in brackets for

credit)

b) Label this eagle to show 2 adaptations that help it survive in its

environment.

2 from sharp beak (for hunting), sharp claws (for hunting), large wings (for flight),

sharp eyesight / forward facing eyes (for hunting), or any other reasonable

adaptations (reason not needed for credit)

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7) Jim collected some berries like these.

a) Berries contain seeds. Why do plants produce seeds?

To reproduce / for new plants to grow (idea of reproduction)

b) Not all berries can, but these can be eaten. Tick the main reason plants

produce berries like these?

To help spread the seeds To look pretty

when animals eat them

To protect the plant from For people to eat

birds and animals

8) Jenny noticed that the berries in her garden were often red. She carried out an

investigation. She hung 50 red, 50 blue, 50 green and 50 yellow beads in the

bushes in her garden. Then she asked Jim to find as many as he could in 2

minutes.

This table shows how many he found of each colour:

a) Which colour of bead was

easiest to spot?

red

b) Jim and Jenny think the

colour of the beads might

have something to do

with the colour of the berries

y

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Why do think many berries

turn red when they are

ready to be eaten?

So birds / animals can spot them and eat them (more than the unripe

black/green/brown berries)

8) Number the life cycle below to show the correct order for this plant.

Position of numbers is not relevant - only sequence (ie 2 can be anywhere as long

as it is followed by 1-3-4)

9) Label this flowering plant to show the basic parts.

2

1

3

4

flower

stem

leaf

We have a high percentage of Chinese EAL students who are very scientific, high achieving learners but sometimes forgot the basic words (despite remembering the technical ones!)

You might replace this with a picture of a flower and labels for the main parts of a flower.

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10) a) Which part is most related to the process of reproduction? flower

b) Which part is most related to the process of photosynthesis? leaf

root