CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCIENCE 3: END-OF-YEAR TEST ANSWERS
End-of-year test answers
1 a 4 marks – one for each bar drawn on the chart
b The plant which had been watered was taller because it had grown well. /
The plant that had not been watered had not grown.
2 a rainforest
b The rainforest is wet so many plants can grow. / The desert is hot/dry
so plants do not have much water.
3 a possible solids: sand, plastic, fabric, shell, stone, rock, paper, hair
possible liquids: water, seawater, juice, soda
possible gas: water vapour (clouds), air
b solid – a material that keeps its shape unless a force is applied
liquid – a material that changes shape easily and takes the shape of its container
gas – a material that spreads out to fill the space it is in
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CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCIENCE 3: END-OF-YEAR TEST ANSWERS
4 Accept any reasonable shadow including:
5 a
b C C C C P
c a food chain
6 gravity
7 a The north pole will be repelled/ It will turn away/ It will move away.
b The poles will be attracted/ They will move together.
8 a grass
b no
c friction
d newtons
9 a spherical
b orbit
10 The following explanations should be circled: The Sun shines on one side of the Moon
and we are looking at it from the side.
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