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 1. The drawing shows the body parts of a snail.

breathing hole
long tentacle hard shell

eye

short tentacle breathing hole

breathing hole hard shell
long tentacle hard shell
long tentacle
eye
eye
head
short tentacle foot
short tentacle
To which part of the snail’s body is an eye attached?
water drops
(A) breathing hole head on inside
(B) of bag
hard shell
head foot
(C) long tentacle (D) foottentacle
short water drops
on inside of bag
bag
watersealed
drops
water drops
2. Some Year 3 students saw their teacher put on on inside
a plastic of bag
inside of bag
bag over some leaves of a plant on a sunny day. One bag sealed
water drops
day later, they saw drops of water on the inside of the water drops
on inside of bag
plastic bag. bag sealed on inside of bag
bag sealed
The teacher explained that the water had come from
the leaves of the plant. bag sealed
bag sealed

The students Pot thought

X this method might also work
PottoY
find out if soil has water in it.

Pot Xplace.
They set up the pots below and put them in a sunny Pot Y
soil plastic bags empty pot
Pot X Pot Y
Pot X Pot Y
soil
bag sealed plastic bags
Pot X Pot Y
Pot X Pot Y
soil plastic bags empty pot
soil plastic bags empty
bag pot
sealed

soil
bag sealed plastic bags
soil
bag sealed plastic bags

bag sealed
bag sealed

Their method of testing showed they were correct.

What must the students have observed in the experiment?

(A) Water formed on the inside of the plastic bag over pot X only.
(B) Water formed on the inside of the plastic bag over pot Y only.
(C) Water formed on the inside of neither plastic bag.
(D) Water formed on the inside of both plastic bags.

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3. Liquids that spread quickly through a paper towel are absorbed better than those that
spread more slowly.

Some children put one measured drop of four different liquids – liquid soap, sauce, milk
and water – on a piece of paper towel. The drawing shows their results after one minute.

Which liquid was best absorbed by the paper towel?

(A) (B)
(A)
(A) (B)
(B)

liquid soap sauce

liquid
liquid soap
soap sauce
sauce
(C) (D)
(C)
(C) (D)
(D)

milk water
milk
milk water
water

4. Rick measured a nail as shown in the diagram.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 10 11 12
0 1 2 3 4 105 116 127 8 9 10 11 12
00 11 22cm33 44 55 66 77 88 99 1010 11
11 12
12
cm
cm cm
cm
cm
Which bar on the graph represents Rick’s measurement?
(A)
(A)
(A) (A)
(A)
(A)
Measurements

(B)
Measurements
Measurements

(B)
(B) (B)
(B)
(B)
(C)
(C)
(C) (C)
(C)
(C)
(D)
(D)
(D) (D)
(D)
(D)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
00 11 22 33 44 55 Length
66 (cm)
77 88 99
Length
Length (cm)
(cm) Length (cm)
Length
Length (cm)
(cm)

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 5. The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

The drawing shows a view from above of a schoolyard early in the morning.

road
road
road
road
tree
tree
office classrooms
tree
office classrooms
tree
office classrooms shadow wall
office classrooms shadow wall
shadow wall
shadow wall

Which pointer is correctly showing north for this view of the schoolyard?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
S

S
N

W
E

W
E

(A) (B) (C) (D)

S

S
N

W
E

W
S
E

S
N

N
W

E
E
W

E
E

S
N

N
N
S

S
W

E
E

E
E

N
W
S

E
S
W

E
N

N
S

S
W

E
E
N

N
S

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Observe the diagram carefully: the eyes are at the end of
1 C Easy
the long tentacles.
The teacher explained that when a plastic bag was placed
over a plant, the water that formed on the inside of the
plastic bag had come from the plant.

2 A For the test to show that water came from the soil in the Medium
same manner, the water must form inside the plastic bag
over the pot with soil in it (pot X), and water must not
form inside the plastic bag over the pot with no soil in it
(pot Y).
As all drops were the same measured size, the fastest
spreading liquid would wet the biggest area of paper. This
3 D Medium
would be the liquid that was best absorbed by the paper.
Water has the biggest wet area.
Note that there are two scales, one for the nail and an-
other for the graph. The nail is 4.5 cm long. The end of
column A is in line with the end of the nail but the graph
4 B Medium
scale indicates that the column is only 2 cm long, and so
column A is wrong. Column C is 5 cm long and column D
is almost 8 cm long, so they are both wrong.
As the shadows of the trees, buildings and walls are toward
the bottom left hand corner, the Sun must be toward the
5 A top right hand corner. As this is early morning and the Hard
Sun rises in the east, the top right hand corner must be
east.

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