CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCIENCE 3: END-OF-UNIT TEST ANSWERS

End-of-unit test answers

The End-of-unit tests answers have been written by the authors. This may not fully reflect the approach
of Cambridge Assessment International Education.

Unit 1: Plants are living things

1 alive – tree, seeds
not alive – bottle, watch, Sun
2

3 Circles drawn around sunlight, water and warmth

4 a 4 cm
b 3 cm
c 4 cm
d The plant with water grew more because it had water.
5 a 4
b 30
c hot
d cold

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Unit 2: Mixing materials

1 solid – a line drawn to anywhere on the glass bottle
liquid – a line drawn to the drink in the bottle
gas – a line drawn to a bubble or the air space in the bottle above the drink
2 Solid – any named solid likely to be found at home, such as metal, plastic,
fabric, clay, rice, flour, sand, rock (accept soap)
Liquid – any named liquid likely to be found at home, such as water, cola,
lemonade, orange juice, milk, liquid soap, washing up liquid, shampoo
Gas – any named gas or mixture of gases likely to be found at home, such as
air, oxygen, nitrogen
3 a Materials that change shape easily and take the shape of their container are
called liquids.
b Materials that spread out to fill the space around them are called gases.
c Materials that keep their shape unless they are compressed, stretched,
twisted
or bent are called solids.

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5 a Any material that is soluble in water e.g. salt, sugar, jelly

b Any material that is insoluble in water e.g. flour, sand, rock, plastic, metal
c oil
d in the ground

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Unit 3: Light and shadows

1 a bottle – no
b belt – yes
c glass – no
d brick – yes
e logs of wood – yes
2 a

pineapple

carrot

banana

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b Accept three shadows similar to these.

3 Shadow drawn should be shorter than the one shown at 9 o’clock.

4 transparent – glass, plastic bottle

opaque – brick, wooden table, metal can
5 a Material A let the light through so it is transparent.
b Material B blocked the light so it is opaque.
c Material C scattered the light so it is translucent.

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Unit 4: Staying alive

1 Mammal – monkey
Fish – salmon
Reptile – turtle
Insect – ant
Amphibian – frog
Bird – eagle
2 a heart
b lungs
c brain
d stomach and intestines
3 a arrow drawn from froglet to adult frog
b eggs, tadpole without legs and tadpole with legs written in the right places

4 a arrow drawn from the fish to the seal

b The seaweed makes its own food using sunlight.
We call the seaweed the producer.
c The fish and seal get their energy by eating other living things.
We call them the consumers.

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5 Animal Plant

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Unit 5: Forces and magnets

1 Object lunch box bananas shoe

Force in N 15 5 11

3 a

b Correct answers will describe the surface as rough or bumpy or not flat
or not smooth.
4 a

A north pole and a south pole attract.

b

A north pole and a north pole repel.

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5 a

b Accept any non-magnetic metal, such as copper, zinc, aluminium,

lead, brass, bronze, silver, gold
c identifying and classifying (accept classifying)

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Unit 6: The Earth and the Moon

1 a Sun
b Moon
c Earth
d sphere circled
2 a The path of the Moon around the Earth is called the orbit of the Moon.
b Gravity
3 a

b Research
4 a b

new crescent quarter gibbous full

Moon Moon Moon Moon Moon

c waxing circled

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5 a Accept a Moon drawn anywhere in the shaded area shown below.

b Accept a Moon drawn anywhere in the shaded area shown below.

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