SJK (TAMIL) GANDHI MEMORIAL MONTHLY TEST /2015

/ 2015

SCIENCE 6

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Section A: Circle the correct answers. Answer all questions. ( 30 marks) . .(30 )A. In a rainforest the plants are different height and sizes. What do these plants compete for?

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l. sunlight / ll. Food / lll. Air / iv. Water / A. l and ll

B. l and lll

l ll

l lll

C. l and iv

D. lll and iv

l iv

lll iv

2. Which of the following animals live in solitary?

?

A.

B

B. D. 3. The following animals are already extinct except?

, .

A. Dinosaurs

B. Tasmania wolf

C. Dodo

D. Orang Utan

4. Which of the following plants is an endangered species?

?

A.

B.

C .

D. 5. Why animals live in groups? ?

l. food

ll. Safety

lll. Space

IV. Mate

A. l and ll

B. ll and lll

C l , ll and lll

D. ll , lll and IVI II II III I, II III II, III IV6. Diagram shows an interaction among three animals. , .

The animals shown above are competing for ? A. Food

B. Mate

C. Water

D. Territory

7. Diagram shows some wild animals which are facing extinction. , .

Which of the following animal is also facing extinction?

?

A. Squirrel

B.Crocodile

C. Monkey

D. Orang Utan

8. The following information shows how animals of type P and Q protect themselves from enemies. P Q .

P : Live in groups

Q : Camouflaging

Which of the following represents P and Q?

P Q .

A.

B.

C.

D.

9. Plants in a habitat will not compete for ?

A. Water

B. Space

C Mate

D. Sunlight

10. The information below shows some human activities.

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Forest are cleared for development

Rivers are polluted with rubbish

Which animals will be affected by the activities above?

?W: Turtle

X : Deer

Y : Crocodile

Z : Tiger

A. W, X, Y

B. X, W, Z

C W, Y, Z

D. X, Y, Z11. The following statement shows a result of an investigation.

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Most of the animals are in endangered because of human activities.

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Which of the following are not correctly matched?

?Animal / Human activities /

A.Tiger / Excessive hunting /

B.Tapir / Deforestation /

C.Orang Utan / Illegal hunting /

DElephant / Illegal hunting /

12. Animal in diagram , is facing the threat of extinction. This happens because . ?

A. It likes to live solitary

B. It is hunted for the skin

C. Its habitat has been destroyed

D. Breeding centres has fail to reproduce them

13. Picture shows oil palm trees planted with specific distance between each other. , .

What is the benefit of planting the oil palm trees with this method?

?

A. To prevent soil erosion

B. To plug the fruits easily

C. To create beautiful scenery

D. To avoid competition for space

14. Which of the following animals competes with the above animal for food?

?

A. Elephant

B. Deer

C. Wolf

D. Monkey

15. Which group of living things will compete for sunlight ? ?A. A goat and cat

B. An ant and a grasshopper

C. grass and rose plants

D. A bird and tree

16. Diagram shows two animals. .

Which of the following is not true about the shaded area?

?A. Both live in solitary.

B. Both have sharp claws C. Both will compete for food

C. Both hunt together and share the food

17.This animal being hunted by human to get .......................

...................... .

A. Skin B. horn

C. Fats

D. Teeth

18. Which of the following are the efforts taken by the government to preserve the

endangered species? ?

i. Replanting

ii. To set up forest reserves

iii. To allow excessive hunting

iv. To enforce law on illegal hunting

A. i , iii

B. i , ii , iii

C. i , iii , iv

D. ii , iii , iv 19. Which of the following is the not negative effects on environment caused by open burning?

?

A. Landslides

B. Sound Pollution

C. The thinning of the ozon layer

D. The rise in the worlds emperature

20. Which of of the following shows the correct match?

.

Animal

The reason of facing the threat of extinction

AWhale

The sea water being polluted

BTurtle

Low reproduction rate

CTiger

Competition between animals

DElephant

The weather change

21. Predict what will happen if deforestation activities not controlled?

?A. Earth become cooler

B. Amount of oxygen increase

C. Earth become warmer

D. Temperature reduce

22. What is the effect of above activity? ?

i. Soil erosion

ii. Landslides

iii. extinction of living things

iv. Flash flood

A. i , ii

B. i , ii , iii

C. i , iii , iv

D. i , ii , iii , iv

23. Among the following, which is correct? ?

A. Kicking a ball - Pull

B. Pressing a switch - Push

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C. Raising the flag - push

D. writing on paper - Pull

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24. Which of the following activity has the same type of force as the activity shown in the picture?

?

A. Open the door

B. Cycling

C. Play music in violin

D. Cut the fruit

25. What force used by angry bird to destroy the structure? ?

A. Pulling B. Pushing C. Pull and push D. no force

26. Which of the following activity does not use any force?

?

A. Running

B. Walking

C. Sleeping

D. Playing Game

27. Which object change its shape easily when a force acts on it?

?A. Cork

B. Glass bottle

C. Stone

D. Plasticine

28. What effect of force that shown in picture above?

?

C. Force can change the direction of moving object

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D. Force can change the shape of object

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E. Force can stop the moving object

F. Force can move the stationary object

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29. Which of the following are true about force?

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i. We cannot see the presence of force.

ii. Force makes an object start moving.

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iii. Force cannot change the size of an object

iv. Force can make a moving object to slowdown.

G. i , ii

B. i , iv

C. i , ii , iii

D. i , ii , iii , iv

30. Choose the correct picture that shows the effect of force below.

Force can change the direction of moving object

H. B.

I. D.

Section B(20 marks)

Answer all questions.

1. A group of pupils carry out an investigation about the extinction of animals species in a particular forest. The bar chart below shows the information obtained by the pupils.

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a. What is the aim of this investigation?

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(1 mark)b. What is the trend in the number of extinct animal species?

?

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(1 mark)c. State two information gathered from this investigation.

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(2 mark)

d. Predict the number of the extinct animal species in year 2010.

2010

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(1 mark)

e. What conclusion can you make based on the bar chart?

?

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(1 mark)

2. Diagram shows information gathered in an investigation. .

Ravis Farm

Kavis farm

Average : 200 mangoes per tree

: 200 Average : 300 Mangoes per tree

: 300

a. What is the aim of this investigation?

?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(1 mark)

b. State two information gathered from this investigation.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(2 mark)

c. State one inference about the average mangoes per tree between both farm

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(1 mark)

d. What conclusion can you make based on this investigation?

?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(1 mark)

3. Diagram 2 shows two aquariums that contain different number of fish. Both fishes in aquarium given by same amount of food. The table shows the result after 2 weeks.

2, . . 2 .

Aquarium

Condition of fish after 2 weeks.

PHealthy

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QOnly 4 fishes in aquarium

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a. What is the aim of this investigation?

?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(1 mark)

b. State :

i. What is Change( ) : ____________________________________________

ii. What is Measure ( ) : ____________________________________________

iii. What is keep the same ( ) : _________________________________________

(3 mark)

d. Predict the number of fish in aquarium Q after another 2 weeks.

2 Q

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(1 mark)

e. What conclusion can you make based from this investigation?

?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(1 mark)

4. Naresh studies the time taken to push the box and the number of pupils needed to push the box over 20 meters in the class.

20 .

Number of pupils needed to push the box

2468

Time taken to push (minutes)

()5432

a. What is the aim of this investigation?

?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(1 mark)

b. State :

i. What is Change( ) : ____________________________________________

ii. What is Measure ( ) : ____________________________________________

iii. What is keep the same ( ) : _________________________________________

(3 mark)

Prepared By,

Checked by,

Confirmed by,

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( Miss.A.Vanaja )

( Mr.S.Patmanathan )

Year 6 Science Teacher

Science Panel Secretary

Cheetah

Tiger

Year

Number of extinct animal species

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