SCIENCE

YEAR 3

LEVELS 2 - 4

Name

Class

Total:

Level:

1. Materials and their Properties

Tick ONE box to complete each sentence:

(a)

Plastic is used for trays because it

... is light
... bends
... floats

1 mark

(b)

Wood is used for matches because it

... floats
... snaps
... burns
1 mark

(c)

Steel is used for nails because it

... does not bend easily

... rusts
1 mark

... is shiny

2. Teeth

(a)

Most human babies are born without teeth.

Why do babies not need teeth?
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1 mark

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(b)
1 mark

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

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(c)

What do teeth do?

Tick TWO boxes.

grind up food
break down food chemically
help to taste food
1 mark

tear off lumps of food

1 mark

grow fillings

This side of the chart shows the mean

(average) amount of sugar eaten in
one year by a person in each place.

60

50

40

30

20

10

Mean (average) amount of sugar eaten, in kg

This side of the chart shows the mean

(average) number of decayed teeth
for a person in each place.

10

Mean (average) number of decayed teeth

Use the information in the chart to answer these questions.

(d)

Which place has the least tooth decay?

1 mark

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(e)
1 mark

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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1 mark

12

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3. Fabrics
(a)

Some children carried out two fair tests on three different fabrics,
A, B and C.
First they hung a 100 g mass from the bottom of each fabric.
Secondly they soaked each fabric in water.

What is the name of the force pulling downwards on the 100 g mass?
1 mark

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(b)

The table shows the results of their two tests.

fabric A

fabric B

fabric C

how far the fabric

streched, in cm

15

how much water was

soaked up, in cm

35

52

Some children wanted a fabric which does not stretch.

Which fabric should they choose?
Tick ONE box.

1 mark

(c)

Which fabric soaked up most water?

1 mark

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(d)
1 mark

Use the information in the table to give TWO reasons why fabric is C
better for swimwear than fabric A.
(i) .........................................................................................................

1 mark

(ii) ........................................................................................................

4. Magnets
(a)

Vicky has a magnet in her hand.

There are some objects in the box.

Vicky is going to find out which objects are attracted by her magnet.
Compare the table of results by putting ONE tick so show the correct
result for each object.
One has been done for you.

is attracted
wooden pencil
steel safety pin
plastic bead
1 mark

cardboard box
1 mark

copper wire

is not attracted

(b)

Which TWO of these metals will attract the magnet?

Tick TWO boxes.

1 mark

iron

aluminium

brass

steel

copper

lead

1 mark

(c)

Complete the following sentences using either repel or attract.

(i)

The North pole of a magnet is held near the North pole of

another magnet.

1 mark

The magnets .................................................... each other.

(ii)
1 mark

The South pole of one magnet is held near the North pole
of another magnet.
The magnets .................................................... each other.

5. Lamp
(a)

At night, Ben switches on the lamp in his room.

There is a shadow of the chair on the floor.
Explain how the shadow is formed from the light of the lamp.
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1 mark

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(b)

Ben looks at the window, and sees a reflection of the lamp.

reflection of
lamp

lamp

shadow of chair
Why is there a reflection of the lamp in the window?
Tick ONE box.
There is a reflection of the lamp in the window because the window is
...

1 mark

shiny

hard

strong

solid

(c)

1 mark

Draw TWO arrowheads on the lines in the picture below to show how
light travels to let Ben see the reflection of the lamp.

6. Rocks
(a)

Jo and Kelly tried scratching rock samples with a fingernail and

with steel. A fingernail is quite soft. Steel is hard.
They recorded their results.

Rock

Scratched with
fingernail
steel
= made a scratch

chalk
flint

= did not make

a scratch

granite
sandstone
Which is the softest rock in the table?
1 mark

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(b)

Use the table to decide if steel is harder than flint.

Tick ONE box.

yes

1 mark

(c)

no

maybe

cant tell

Explain your answer to part (b).

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1 mark

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(d)
1 mark

Name ONE rock in the table which is harder than sandstone.

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7. Growing Seeds
(a)

Martin and Jane are growing seeds.

Tick ONE thing all the seeds must have to start to grow.

1 mark

(b)

light

water

salt

soil

The seeds start to grow.

Martin covers the seedlings with a polythene bag. Jane covers her
seedlings with black paper.

After a few days the leaves of Jane's seedlings are yellow.

Why do the seedlings under the black paper have yellow leaves?
1 mark

..

(c)

Martin's seedlings grow strong and healthy leaves.

Explain why the leaves are important to a plant.

1 mark

..

(d)

Martin measures the roots of his pea seedlings.

Graph to show rate of growth of roots

50
40
Length of 30
root (mm)
20
10
0
0

12 16 20 24
Day

Look at the graph.

When are the roots growing fastest?
Tick ONE box.

day 0 to day 4
day 8 to day 12
day 16 to day 20
1 mark

day 20 to day 24

8. Paper Towels
(a)

Each of four children examined a different type of paper towel.

Decide the kind of statement all the children have made.

Tick ONE box.

1 mark

a prediction

a measurement

a plan

an observation

(b)

Robert and Lauren dropped water

onto the four towels until they would
hold not more water.

They recorded their results in a

table.

Type of paper towel

Amount of water soaked up (cm3)

Wipa

12

Soaka

18

Moppa

Cleana

15

They are trying to find out something about the towels.

What question were the children investigating?
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1 mark

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(c)

1 mark

What is the ONE factor they changed as they carried out their
investigation?
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