Assessment
Y5 Material Properties
1) When making the following items, the materials they are made from must be carefully
selected. Name two of the material properties that are important for each item and the
materials they are made from if they are to do their job properly. The words below will help
you. You may also use your own material property words. (4 marks)
hard soft transparent impermeable opaque permeable
magnetic rough rigid translucent smooth flexible warm
Rubber hot water Copper kettle Net curtains Wooden bowl Leather jacket
bottle
Fridge magnets Drinking glass Bath towel Steel keys Plastic umbrella
2) Wires are usually made from two materials, copper and plastic. Explain why? (1 mark)
Plastic cover _______________________________
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Copper wire
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3) Which of the following materials will dissolve in water? (1 mark)
Tick TWO boxes.
butter sugar granite
salt oil sand
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4) Lucy and Pip investigated how much sugar dissolved in 100ml of water at room
temperature. This table shows their results:
Number of spoonfuls of sugar Did it all dissolve in 100ml of water?
1 yes
2 yes
3 yes
4 yes
5 no
6 no
a. Lucy says that when they added the sugar to the water at the beginning of their
investigation, it disappeared. Explain why this statement is incorrect. (1 mark)
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b. Explain why 5 spoonfuls of sugar stopped dissolving in 100ml of water. (1 mark)
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5) a. The table below shows the time it takes one sugar cube to dissolve in 400ml of
water, but at different temperatures. Plot these results into a block graph. (3 marks)
Temperature C 0 20 40 60
Time taken to
65 50 30 10
dissolve (seconds)
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b. What do the results tell you about the temperature of water and the rate at which sugar
cubes dissolve? (2 marks)
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c. Write down three things that you would have to do when carrying out this investigation
to make sure you carried out a fair test. (2 marks)
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• _______________________________________________
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6) a. Four teaspoons of salt dissolve in 500ml of cold water. The water looks clear but
tastes salty. Describe how this salt could be separated from the water? (2 marks)
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b. Look at the mixtures below and the equipment. Explain how you would separate each
mixture using the equipment available. You can use any of the equipment available more
than once. (4 marks)
Equipment
Mug Spoon Sieve Magnet Ladle Jug
Iron filings and sand Small pebbles and sand
This is the equipment I would This is the equipment I would
select: _______________ select: _______________
This is how I would separate this mixture: This is how I would separate this mixture:
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7) Heating causes some materials to change. Some of these changes are reversible and
some are irreversible. Look at the changes caused to these materials by heating and say
whether these changes are reversible or irreversible. (2 marks)
Melting chocolate Melting chocolate
This is a ___________ This is a ___________
change. change.
Melting chocolate Melting chocolate
This is a ___________ This is a ___________
change. change.
Melting chocolate Melting chocolate
This is a ___________ This is a ___________
change. change.
8) Explain what will happen to this puddle on a warm sunny day. (1 mark)
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9) When designing certain items and products it is vital that the materials selected are
transparent, translucent or opaque. Look at the products below and say whether it is
important for them to be transparent, translucent or opaque. (1 marks)
Sleeping mask Reading glasses Sun glasses
It is important that It is important that the It is important that
the sleeping mask is reading glasses are the sun glasses are
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