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5th grade plants

5th grade (Year 6 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.5-LS1-1, NGSS.5-PS3-1, NGSS.3-LS1-1 · England: KS3 Biology: Material cycles and energy, KS2 Y5 Living things and their habitats

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Question 1
How plants grow: which statement is true?
- A. Plants take in oxygen and give out only carbon dioxide all day.
- B. Plants make their own food using light energy.
- C. The energy in plant food comes from the soil.
- D. Plants do not need light to make food.
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Question 2
How is this new plant produced: beans sown in spring?
- A. from seeds (sexual reproduction)
- B. from part of one parent (asexual reproduction)
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Question 3
What is one advantage of plants making seeds rather than copies?
- A. Seeds create variety, so some young may survive changes such as new diseases.
- B. Copies spread further.
- C. Seeds need no pollination.
- D. Seeds are always identical.
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Question 4
Which gas do plants take from the air to build their bodies?
- A. oxygen
- B. nitrogen
- C. helium
- D. carbon dioxide
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Question 5
How plants grow: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Plants make their own food using light energy.
- B. Plants release oxygen into the air.
- C. The energy in plant food comes from the soil.
- D. Most of a plant's mass comes from carbon dioxide in the air and from water.
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Question 6
True or false? Plants grown from cuttings are identical to the parent plant.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 7
How plants grow: which statement is true?
- A. The energy in plant food comes from the soil.
- B. Plants take in carbon dioxide through tiny holes in their leaves.
- C. Plants get most of their mass by eating soil.
- D. Plants take in oxygen and give out only carbon dioxide all day.
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Question 8
How is this new plant produced: a geranium cutting in water?
- A. from seeds (sexual reproduction)
- B. from part of one parent (asexual reproduction)
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Question 9
What is one advantage of plants making seeds rather than copies?
- A. Seeds are always identical.
- B. Copies spread further.
- C. Seeds create variety, so some young may survive changes such as new diseases.
- D. Seeds need no pollination.
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Question 10
In a famous experiment, a willow tree grew by 74 kg in 5 years, but the soil lost only about 0.06 kg. What does this show?
- A. Trees do not grow.
- B. The soil got heavier.
- C. The tree's mass did not mainly come from the soil.
- D. Trees eat soil.
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Question 11
How plants grow: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Plants get most of their mass by eating soil.
- B. Plants release oxygen into the air.
- C. Roots take in water and minerals.
- D. Most of a plant's mass comes from carbon dioxide in the air and from water.
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Question 12
True or false? All plants can only reproduce with seeds.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 13
How plants grow: which statement is true?
- A. The energy in plant food comes from the soil.
- B. Plants do not need light to make food.
- C. Plants take in carbon dioxide through tiny holes in their leaves.
- D. Plants take in oxygen and give out only carbon dioxide all day.
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Question 14
How is this new plant produced: beans sown in spring?
- A. from seeds (sexual reproduction)
- B. from part of one parent (asexual reproduction)
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Question 15
What is one advantage of plants making seeds rather than copies?
- A. Copies spread further.
- B. Seeds create variety, so some young may survive changes such as new diseases.
- C. Seeds are always identical.
- D. Seeds need no pollination.
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Question 16
Where does the energy stored in the food we eat originally come from?
- A. the oceans
- B. the Sun
- C. the soil
- D. the Moon

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Answer key: 5th grade plants

1. B. Plants make their own food using light energy.
2. A. from seeds (sexual reproduction)
3. A. Seeds create variety, so some young may survive changes such as new diseases.
4. D. carbon dioxide
5. C. The energy in plant food comes from the soil.
6. A. True
7. B. Plants take in carbon dioxide through tiny holes in their leaves.
8. B. from part of one parent (asexual reproduction)
9. C. Seeds create variety, so some young may survive changes such as new diseases.
10. C. The tree's mass did not mainly come from the soil.
11. A. Plants get most of their mass by eating soil.
12. B. False
13. C. Plants take in carbon dioxide through tiny holes in their leaves.
14. A. from seeds (sexual reproduction)
15. B. Seeds create variety, so some young may survive changes such as new diseases.
16. B. the Sun