Name ........................................................................ Time: 40min.

Formal Assessment NS & Tech Sep 2022

Grade 4 Total: 20

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Read and answer all of the questions.
2. Write neatly.
3. The test lasts 40min.

1. Where do people get energy from?

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2. Where do plants get their energy from to produce their own food?

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3. What are nutrients?

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 4. Is the following statement true or false: One does not use energy to watch TV.

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5. Is the following statement true or false: We use energy when we sleep.

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6. Name 2 types of food we get from animals.

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7. Name 2 types of food we get from plants.

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8. What is a herbivore?

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9. What is an omnivore?

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10. What type of energy do plants use from the sun?

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11. Where do plants store their food?

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12. Where do plants get nutrients from?

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13. What do cows eat to get energy?

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14. What is an energy chain?

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15. What are the 2 types of energy that the sun provides us with?

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16. What is energy transfer?

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17. Where do earthworms get their food from?

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18. Arrange the following in the correct energy chain order: sheep, fox, grass, sun.

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19. What does seed need to germinate and grow?

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20. What is input energy?

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21. What is output energy?

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22. What kind of energy is music playing?

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23. What kind of energy comes from a heater?

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24. What energy is used when you swim?

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25. Where is crude oil found?

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26. Name 3 products made from crude oil.

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27. What input energy does a flute need to give an output energy?

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28. What do we call this type of input?

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29. What happens when something vibrates?

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30. What is the main output energy of musical instruments?

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Total:40 marks / 2
Total: 20 Marks
MEMORANDUM
1. From the food we eat.
2. From the sun.
3. These are substances in food that need living things to stay alive, stay healthy
and grow.
4. False.
5. True.
6. Any suitable answer, eg: meat, eggs, dairy products, fish, etc.
7. Any suitable answer, eg: grains, fruits, nuts, vegetables, etc.
8. An animal that eats only plants.
9. An animal or people who eat both plants and animals / meat.
10. Light energy.
11. In their roots, stems and leaves.
12. From the soil.
13. They eat grass.
14. The order in which the energy goes from the sun to an animal or plant.
15. Light and Heat Energy.
16. The process by which energy passes from one part of the energy chain to the
another.
17. From dead plants and animals.
18. Sun, grass, sheep, fox.
19. They need oxygen.
20. It is energy that enters a system to make it work.
21. Energy coming from a system.
22. This is sound energy.
23. Heat Energy.
24. Kinetic energy.
25. Deep beneath the earth's surface.
26. Any 3 of the following: Diesel, petrol, jet fuel, paraffin or candle wax.
27. The person must blow into the flute.
28. Motion / Movement Input.
29. It shakes with small movements back and forth.
30. Sound.