The Westminster School, Dubai

Subject: Science

Year-4 Animals including Humans - Worksheet

7-11-2019

1. Digestive system

(a) A class carries out a survey to find out how often the children eat vegetables to
maintain healthy digestive system-

Tally chart to show how often the children

eat vegetables

How often? How often?

more than once a day

once a day

once a week

less than once a week

never

Use the tally chart. How many children eat vegetables more than once a day?

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(b) Eleven children gave the same answer as each other.

Use the tally chart to find out what answer these eleven children gave.

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(c) Nasreen makes a poster to show how to stay healthy. Only some of the ideas on
her poster are good.

Tick TWO boxes to show the best ideas on the poster below.

To stay healthy you should:

• eat lots of fried food. • eat different kinds of food.

• Smoke every day. • Exercise often.

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2. Digestion takes place in a long tube –like canal called the alimentary canal, or the
digestive tract.
Food travels through these organs in the following order:

A. Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum

B. Mouth, esophagus, stomach, large intestine, small intestine and rectum
C. Mouth, stomach, small intestine, esophagus/gullet, large intestine and rectum
D. Mouth, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine, stomach and rectum

Q.3 What are the three main functions of the digestive system?

a. Nutrition, oxygen, circulation

b. Digestion, absorption, elimination
c. Nutrition, absorption, elimination
Q.4 Look at the picture showing the human digestive system.

Put a cross, x on the organs in the picture that helps in the absorption

of nutrients into the blood stream. The organ which helps in absorption tof nutrition is
called

A. Large Intestine
B. Stomach
C. Small intestine
D. None of the above

5. Teeth
(a) Most human babies are born without teeth.

Why do babies not need teeth?

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 (b) How many sets of teeth do humans grow during their lives?

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(c) What do teeth do?

Tick TWO boxes.

a. grind up food

b. help to taste food

c. grow fillings

d. tear off lumps of food

6.

This side of the chart shows the mean This side of the chart shows the mean
(average) amount of sugar eaten in (average) number of decayed teeth
one year by a person in each place. for a person in each place.

60 50 40 30 20 10 2 4 6 8 10 12

Mean (average) amount of sugar eaten, in kg Mean (average) number of decayed teeth

Use the information in the chart to answer these questions.

(d) Which place has the least tooth decay?

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(e) In which place do people eat the most sugar?

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(f) How could people alter their diets to reduce tooth decay?

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7. Tooth care

(a) Four children record how often they brush their teeth.

Before After Before Before

Name
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Mike

Ian

Lucy

Molly

Look at the table.

Which child is likely to have the healthiest teeth?

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(b) Why does brushing help to reduce tooth decay?

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(c) Which of the following would help most in reducing tooth decay?

Tick ONE box.

drink more orange juice eat less sugar

eat less fat eat more vegetables

8. At the dentist

(a) When Jon bites a piece of apple, there is a force from Jon’s teeth on the apple.

(i) Draw ONE arrow on the picture below to show the direction of the force
from Jon’s bottom teeth when he bites the apple.

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 (ii) Label the main type of tooth Jon uses to bite the apple.

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(b) Jon visits the dentist regularly to help stop tooth decay.

Describe ONE other way Jon can help stop tooth decay.

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(c) Jon looks around the dentist’s surgery.

He can see the following objects.

Tick ONE box to show which object light passes through best.

mirror glass

pencil coat

(d) The dentist uses a lamp to see Jon’s teeth clearly.

Draw TWO arrows on the diagram below to show the direction light travels for the
dentist to see Jon’s teeth.

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9. Drinks and teeth

Dentists say that some drinks are harmful because they dissolve teeth.

You are asked to plan your own science investigation.

Instead of teeth, you have some tooth-sized marble chips which react in a
similar way to teeth.

You can use different drinks, containers for the marble chips and any
equipment you need.

Write in the box a short draft of one question YOU could plan to investigate
about drinks and teeth.

Use your draft to help you answer the questions below.

(a) Now answer the following questions about YOUR investigation.

What ONE factor should you plan to change as you carry out your investigation?

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(b) (i) Which factor will you observe or measure to collect your results?

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(ii) What would you use to measure the factor you have planned to examine?

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(c) Write ONE factor you should keep the same to make your test fair.

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10. (a) The dentist gave this child a tablet which dyes the plaque on the teeth.

Before using coloured dye After using coloured dye

Plaque leads to tooth decay.

What can you do to stop plaque building up on your teeth between visits to
the dentist?

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(b) Different types of tooth do different jobs when we bite food.

Look at the picture.

What different jobs do these two types of tooth do?

molar
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incisor

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