Year 6 Science GL Style Practice Paper

1. Which of these images below shows the circulatory system?

• a)
• b)
• c)

2. Which graph below shows what would most likely be someone's heart rate whilst sleeping?

• a)
• b)
• c)

3. What two words should be entered into the missing spaces to make this diagram correct?

• Arteries and deoxygenated
• Capillaries and arteries
• oxygen and deoxygenated
• oxygen and arteries

4. What is the name given to scientists who sort and classify living things into groups?

• Microbiologist
• Seismologist
• Geneticist
• Taxonomist

5. We sort living things into different groups at different levels. What is the name of the original level of groupings that included ‘animal’ and ‘plant’?

• class
• kingdom
• species
• order

6. What class of animal is a fox?

• Mammalia / Mammal
• Invertebrate
• Feline
• Fungi

7. Can you name the symbol below?

• battery
• closed switch
• cell
• lightbulb

8. Which of these items would you need to test how the volume of a buzzer is affected by the amount of voltage in the circuit? Choose from the options below.

• lightbulb, battery and wires with crocodile clips
• lightbulb, buzzer and switch
• wires with crocodile clips, battery and a buzzer
• switch, buzzer and a lightbulb

9. Using the table below, which result looks like an anomaly?

• 33db
• 61db
• 51db
• 70db

10. Can you choose which word has the meaning as shown in the box below?

• Opaque
• Translucent
• Transparent
• Block