5A Keeping Healthy
33 min
32 marks
Level 3
1.
Balanced Diets
(a)
A class carries out a survey to find out how often the children eat vegetables.
Tally chart to show how often the children
eat vegetables
How often?
How often?
Use the tally chart. How many children eat vegetables more than once a day?
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1 mark
(b)
(c)
In a balanced diet, each food group has a special function in the body. Each food
below is a good source of something the body needs.
Draw THREE lines below to match each food to its special function.
Food
(d)
Nasreen makes a poster to show how to stay healthy. Only some of the ideas on
her poster are good.
Tick TWO boxes to show the best ideas on the poster below.
exercise often.
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2.
Some children watch a video showing what happens when air passes through a
lighted cigarette.
The video shows a scientist using this model.
The scientist squeezes the plastic bottle. This forces air out.
Then she lets go. This forces air back into the bottle, through the lighted cigarette.
She does this several times. The cotton wool becomes black and dirty.
What is taken into the bottle with the air and makes the cotton wool dirty?
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1 mark
(b)
(c)
3.
Some children are learning about blood and how it flows around the human body.
Blood flows faster when the heart pumps faster.
Which TWO of the following make the heart pump fastest?
Tick TWO boxes.
swimming
resting
stretching
running
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(b)
(c)
muscle
blood
bone
skin
4
1 mark
(d)
Lungs
Lungs
Heart
Heart
Body
Body
Lungs
Lungs
Heart
Heart
Body
Body
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(e)
When the heart pumps the blood faster, we also breathe faster.
Complete this sentence.
We breathe faster because the body needs to
take more ..................................................... into the lungs.
1 mark
Level 4
4.
(a)
Medicine bottles used to be made of glass. Now they are often made of plastic.
(b)
1 mark
5.
Playing Football
(a)
Some children are playing football. They take their pulse rates before and after
the game.
(b)
(c)
6.
Space station
(a)
Class 6F has been watching a programme about the International Space Station.
Astronauts live in the space station for many months. Each day they spend two
hours on exercise machines.
Why do astronauts need to exercise while they are in the space station?
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1 mark
(b)
The astronauts are not allowed to eat bread or crackers because the crumbs float
around the space station.
On Earth, crumbs fall down.
Why do crumbs fall down to the ground on Earth?
Write about a force in your answer.
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1 mark
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(c)
Food that astronauts take into space has been dried to remove air and
water. This stops micro-organisms growing on the food.
Write true or false next to each statement about their food.
Dried food is better than fresh food to take into space
because it...
True or false?
weighs more.
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1 mark
(d)
(e)
The roots of plants take in some things the plants need to grow.
Describe another function of the roots.
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1 mark
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7.
The heart
(a)
Describe one other change in Joes heartbeat straight after exercise compared
with before exercise.
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1 mark
(b)
Denise and Joe collect information from four adults. The table shows what they
find out.
Adult
Exercises
regularly
Eats a
balanced diet
Smokes
regularly
Cleans teeth
regularly
A
B
C
D
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Level 5
8.
Bones
(a)
breathing
nutrition
movement
reproduction
1 mark
(b)
Birds also have a skeleton. The diagrams below show a human bone and a bird
bone cut in half.
Human bone
Bird bone
The bird bone is hollow (filled with air) inside. This makes it easier for the bird
to fly.
Why do hollow bones make it easier for birds to fly?
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1 mark
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(c)
If humans ate only meat, their bones would not stay strong.
Tick ONE box to show what is best for humans to eat to keep their bones strong.
all food
without fat
a balanced diet
1 mark
(d)
9.
Human body
(a)
Meena makes this list to show the functions of different parts of the body.
Functions of different parts of the body:
1.
takes in food
2.
pumps blood
3.
takes in oxygen
4.
5.
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(i)
Which number on Meenas list gives the main function of the brain?
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1 mark
(ii)
Which number on Meena's list gives the main function of the heart?
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1 mark
(b)
Name the set of bones that helps to protect the heart and lungs.
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1 mark
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(c)
Meena reads in a book that the human heart beats about 4300 times an hour at
resting rate.
Meena says: 'I want to check this information, but I cannot measure
my heartbeat for an hour.'
How can Meena find out quickly if her heart beats about 4300 times an hour?
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1 mark
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