Kindergarten ecosystems and food chains
Kindergarten (Reception and Year 1 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.K-ESS2-2, NGSS.K-ESS3-1, NGSS.K-ESS3-3 · England: EYFS Understanding the World: The natural world, KS1 Y2 Uses of everyday materials, KS1 Y1 Everyday materials
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Question 1
Why does planting trees help the planet?
- A. Trees make rubbish.
- B. Trees give homes to animals and clean the air.
- C. Trees make the air dirtier.
- D. Trees use up all the water so nothing else can drink.
Question 2
A pavement (sidewalk) next to an old tree is cracked and lifted up. What most likely did it?
- A. the tree's roots growing underneath
- B. the wind
- C. the leaves falling
- D. people walking on it
Question 3
Why is it good to recycle plastic bottles?
- A. Recycled plastic turns into food.
- B. Less rubbish goes to landfill and the plastic can be made into new things.
- C. It makes the bottles heavier.
- D. It makes more plastic in the sea.
Question 4
Which recycling group should this go in: a glass milk bottle?
- A. paper and card
- B. glass
- C. metal
- D. food waste (compost)
Question 5
Does this help or harm the environment: pouring paint into a stream?
- A. helps
- B. harms
Question 6
Who made this change: building a playground?
- A. a plant
- B. an animal
- C. people
Question 7
Which of these is a way to reuse?
- A. sending old newspapers to be made into new paper
- B. putting glass bottles in the bottle bank
- C. buying fruit without plastic wrapping
- D. using a jam jar to store pencils
Question 8
Three of these go in the paper and card group. Which one does NOT?
- A. an old comic
- B. a clean foil tray
- C. a cardboard egg box
- D. a used envelope
Question 9
Is this reducing, reusing or recycling: putting glass bottles in the bottle bank?
- A. reduce
- B. reuse
- C. recycle
Question 10
True or false? Animals can change the land to meet their needs.
- A. True
- B. False
Question 11
True or false? Saving water helps the environment.
- A. True
- B. False
Question 12
True or false? Once something is recycled it can never be used again.
- A. True
- B. False
Question 13
Which way to school is kindest to the air?
- A. being driven in a car alone
- B. in a car with the engine left running outside
- C. being driven by car and then by another car
- D. walking or cycling
Question 14
Why does a squirrel bury acorns in the ground?
- A. to grow a nest
- B. to make the ground flat
- C. to store food for later
- D. to keep the acorns warm for fun
Question 15
A class drinks from paper cups and throws them away every day. Which change makes the biggest difference?
- A. Throw the cups away twice as fast.
- B. Everyone uses their own refillable bottle.
- C. Use a new cup for every sip.
- D. Use bigger paper cups.
Question 16
Which recycling group should this go in: a clean foil tray?
- A. paper and card
- B. glass
- C. metal
- D. food waste (compost)
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