SCIENCE UPSR SECTION A

SCIENCE YEAR 4 QUESTIONS/ANSWER 1. BASIC NEEDS 1. What are basic needs of humans and animals? a) air b) water c) food d) shelter 2. What are basic needs of plants? a) air b) water c) sunlight 2. LIFE PROCESSES 1. State the life processes. a) breathing b) excretion c) defecation d) response to stimuli e) reproduction f) growth g) digestion h) movement 2. The inhale air has more oxygen, but the exhale air has more carbon dioxide. 3. What are the waste material that through out from our body? a) urine b) sweat c)water vapour d) carbon dioxide 4. What is the organ of excretion for each waste materials? a) urine kidneys b) sweat - skin c) water vapour and carbon dioxide - lungs 5. Undigested food ( faeces ) is removed from our body during defecation 6. Complete the table: organs Nose Ears Eyes Skin tongue stimuli Smell sound light touch taste SIGN. 1 SIGN.2 SIGN. 3

7. Why humans response to stimuli? a) to protect themselves from danger

b) to survival

8. Why humans need to reproduce? a) to produce new generation b) to ensure the continuity of human beings c) to increase the number of people in family 9. What are the bad habits that can affect our life processes? a) smoking cigarettes b) drinking alcohol c) taking drugs 10. State 3 excretory organs of animals? a) lungs b) gills c) skin 11. Complete the table:

12. What are the ways of animal reproduce? a) give birth b) laying eggs 13. Complete the table:

14. What are the ways of plant reproduce? a) seeds b) spores c) suckers d) stem cutting e) leaves f) underground stem 3. PROTECTION 1. What are the special characteristic and behaviours of animal to protect themselves from danger? State 2 examples of animal. a) hard scales pangolin, crocodile b) bad smell - skunk, bedbug c) camouflage chameleon ,stick insert d) stings scorpion, wasp e) horn rhinoceros, buffalo f) curls up its body millipede, armadillo g) hard shell snail, tortoise h) poisonous tentacles jellyfish, sea anemoe i) strong and muscular legs horse, deer j) live in group elephant, zebra

2. What are the special characteristic and behaviours of animals to protect themselves from extreme weathers? State 2 examples. a) thick fur sheep, polar bear b) thick layer of fat whale, penguin c) migration swallow, swan d) hibernation bear, squirrel e) humps camel f) wallowing in water rhinoceros, buffalo 3. What are the special characteristics of plants to protect themselves from enemies? State 2 examples a) fine hair bamboo, pumpkin. b) thorns- durian, pineapple c) prickles-rose, cactus d) latex-papaya, jackfruit e) close their leaflets-mimosa f) poisonous fruits ,stalks ,flower-mushroom, yam plants g) bad smell -rafflesia ,tobacco leaves 4.What are the characteristics of plants to prevent excessive loss of water? State 2 examples a) hairy leaves - pumpkin, watermelon b) shed leaves rubber c) waxy coating hyacinth ,banana d) stems store water banana ,baobab e) curl up their leaves banana f) needle like leaves pine ,casuarinas g) long roots to absorb water-cactus 5. What are the special characteristics of plants to protect themselves from strong wind? State 2 examples a) strong buttress roots durian , casuarinas b) prop roots maize , banyan c) soft stem to bend easily bamboos , grass 4. MEASUREMENT 1. What is length? Length is the distance between two points. 2. What are length measure length using body parts? a) arm span b) arm c) cubit d) foot 3. What are the measuring tools to measure more accurate? a) ruler b) measuring tape

4. What are the standard unit of length? a) millimetre (mm) b) centimetre (cm) c) metre (m) d) kilometre (km) 5. What is area? Area is region covered by a surface. 6. What are standard unit for area? a) square millimetre (mm2) b) square centimetre (cm2) c) square metre (m2) d) square kilometre (km2) 7. What is the formula to calculate the area? Area = Length x width 8. What is volume? Volume is the amount of space taken up by a solid object such as cube and cuboid. 9. How to measure the volume of cubes 1 cm x 1 cm x 1cm? The number of cubes 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm is equal to the volume of cube. 10. What is standard unit for solid and liquid? Solid: a)) cubic millimetre (cm3) b) cubic centimetre (cm3) c ) cubic metre (m3) Liquid: a) litre (l) b)millitre (ml) 11. What is the formula to measure the volume of solid? Volume = Length x Width x Height 12. What is the tool that can measure the volume of solid more accurately? Measuring cylinder 13. What is the tool to measure the mass? a) beam balance b) compression balance c) bathroom scale d) lever balance e) electronic balance 14. What is the unit for mass? a) milligram (mg) b) gram (g) 15. What is time? Time is process that repeat uniformly. c) kilogram (kg)

16. What is standard unit for time? 1 hour = 60 minutes 1 hour = 3600 seconds 1 minute = 60 seconds 17. What is tool for measuring time long long ago? a) candle b) sundial c) hourglass 18. Why the standard unit are importance for measuring? Because standard unit are used around the world and to ensure consistency and accuracy. 5. MATERIALS 1. State the natural materials ( plants , animals , soil/mineral). a) wood b) rubber c) mates d) glass e) cotton f) leather g) fur h) silk 2. State the man-made materials a) plastic b) synthetic cloth (nylon , rayon) 3.What are the properties of materials? a) conducts electricity it allow electricity to pass through it .metal b) conducts heat it allow heat to pass through it- metal c) float on water it does not sink easily-wood ,plastic d) absorbs water-it takes in water -fabric ,sponge e) can be stretched become longer when pulled rubber f) allow light to pass through we can see through the material- glass , plastic 4.What are conductor? Material that allow electricity and heat pass through it .Good conductor is metal. 5.What is insulator? Material that does not allow heat or electricity to pass through it .Good insulator is non-metal 6. What are the classified of material according to the amount of light they allow?

a) transparent allow most light to pass through it b) translucent allow some light to pass through it c) opaque does not allow any light to pass through it. 7. How we can conserve the materials? a) reuse b) reduce c) recycle 8. Why we must conserve the materials? a) save our forest b) save energy c) reduce pollution d) ensure material are not used up e) cleaner and healthier environment 9. What is rust? Rust is the reddish brown layer formed on a material(iron) 10. How to prevent rusting? a) paint b) oil/grease c) coating by rubber, plastic and non- rusting metall 11. What can cause iron to rust? a) air b) water 6. THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE 1. State the planet in a solar system in order. a) mercury - my b) Venus -very c) Earth - excellent d) Mars - mother e) Jupiter - just f) Saturn - served g) Uranus - us h) Neptune - nine i) Pluto - pizza 2. Tell me, what do you know about the moon? a) natural satellite b) 28 days to move around the earth c) not give out light/heat but reflect the light from the sun. 3. What is the ratio of the size between the moon, earth and sun? Moon : earth : sun 1 : 4 : 400 4. What are the special characteristic for each planet in solar

system? a) Mercury closest to sun, too hot b) Venus atmosphere traps heat, hotter c) Earth has air, water & suitable temperature to support life d) Mars - red planet e) Jupiter largest planet, made up gases & ice f) Saturn second largest, three wide ring g) Uranus lying on its side goes around the sun h) Neptune covered by liquid methane i) Pluto smallest, very cool & dark 5. What do you know the members of solar system below? a) asteroid b) comets c) meteoroids, d) meteors 7. TECHNOLOGY AROUND US 1. What are the limitation of humans and how to overcome it? a) Unable to see small details hard lens , microscope b) Unable to see details of very distant binoculars , telescope c) Unable to speak loud far away microphone , telephone d) Unable to do complex calculations quickly calculator e) Unable to hear very weak sound of a heartbeat stethoscope f) Unable to walk long distance car , aeroplane g) Unable to save a lot of memory computer 2. What is the development technology in communication? signal writing telegraph morse telephone/wireless radio satellite internet 3. What is the technology in transportation? a) land transportation walking animals steam power engine (car , locomotive) petrol power modern transport (car , bus , trains) b) water transportation raft boat ferry/ships submarine c) air transportation hot air balllons airship aeroplane rocket spacecrafts 4. What is the development technology in agriculture?

Used stick to plough fields used animals used sickle/hoe tractors machines 5. What is the development technology in construction? a) building lived in cave hut wooden house concrete house b) bridge wooden bridge wooden bridge concrete bridge concrete and steel bridge 6. What are the advantages of technology? a) work easily b) saves time c) a better quality d) work safely e) increase productivity 7. What are the disadvantages of technology? a) increase vehicle causes air & noise pollution b) pesticides to kill insects cause pollution c) used in manufacturing military weapons cause war d) car accidents by using mobile phone e) x ray machine produces harmful rays

SCIENCE YEAR 5 QUESTIONS/ANSWERS 1. MICROORGANISMS 1. What is microorganisms? Microorganisms is living thing that are very tiny 2. State 4 type of microorganisms. a) bacteria b) virus c) fungi d) protozoa 3. What are basic need of microorganisms? a) air b) water c) food/nutrient d) suitable temperature 4. What are the useful microorganisms? a) making bread b) making tapai c) making tempeh d) alcoholic drink 5. What are the harmful microorganisms? a) illness b) food poisoning c) tooth decay d) food turn bad 6. State the harmful microorganisms and the diseases carried? a) virus AIDS, chicken pox, mumps, polio b) bacteria cholera, tooth c) fungi Tinea (athletes foot) d) protozoa malaria, dysentery 7. How to prevent the spreading diseases? a) wash hand after working b) drinking boil water c) cover mouth & nose when sneezing d) do not share personal item e) quarantine patient contagious diseases f) cover food properly g) store meat, fish, chicken in freezer 8. State 6 of contagious diseases. a) influenza b) measles d) conjunctivitis e) chicken pox c) mumps f) AIDS SIGN 1 SIGN 2 SIGN 3

2. SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES 1. How the animals take care of their eggs to survive their species? a) hatch eggs in a nest b) lay eggs in holes c) buries eggs in the sand d) carry their eggs in the body e) hides eggs f) slimy eggs 2. How animals take care of their young? a) carry in the mouth b) carry their young in the pouch c) feet their young d) stay in herds e) build nest f) attack in order 3. What is dispersal ? Dispersal means scattering seeds or fruits away from the parent plants to other places. 4. What are the characteristic of each method of dispersal? a) water waxy skin, water proof, air spaces b) wind light, small, wing, fine hair c) animals bright colour, fleshy, sweat & nice smell, fruits are edible & tasty, seed have hook/prickles d) explosive mechanism seed protect in a fruits, fruits skin dries up when ripe. 3. FOOD CHAIN AND FOOD WEB 1. State the classification of animals according to the food they eat. a) herbivorous eat plants b) carnivorous eat meat/animals c) omnivorous eat plants & meat 2. What is food chain? Food chain is relationship between living thing according to the food they eat(producer & consumer) 3. What is means the arrow( The arrow means is eaten by ) in the food chain?

4. What is food web? Food web is two or more food chain together to form a larger network 5. Who is producer in food chain? Producer must be a green plants

4. ENERGY 1. What is energy? Energy is ability to do work. 2. What are the sources of energy? a) sun b) food c) fuel d) dry cells e) wind f) water 3. State the form of energy. a) heat energy b) potential energy d) sound energy e) kinetic energy g) electrical energy c) light energy f) chemical energy

4. What are the energy that can renewable? a) solar energy b) wind energy c) hidro(water) energy d) biomass fuel 5. What are non-renewable energy? a) natural gas b) petroleum c) charcoal d) coal

e) nuclear energy

6. How using energy wisely? a) to save cost b) to avoid wastage c) to reduce pollution. d) to conserve some energy resources which cannot be replenished when use up 5. ELECTRICITY 1. What are the sources of electricity? a) dry cell b) accumulator c) dynamos d) solar cell 2. What are the component in electric circuit? a) dry cell b) bulb c) switch d) wire 3. State the type of electric circuit. a) series circuit b) parallel circuit 4. Mishandling of electrical appliances can cause: a) fire b) burn c) electrocution d) electric shock

5. What are the safety precautions when using electric appliances? a) do not touch switch when wet hands c) do not repair electrical by yourself d) do not use broken wires c) do not temper power supply using conductor d) do not touch victim of electric shock 6. LIGHT 1. Why light cannot see through a bent roller paper? Because the light travel in straight line 2. How do a shadow is formed? A shadow is formed when light is blocked by an opaque or translucent object 3. How to change the size of shadow? a) change the distance between the light source and the object b) change the distance between the object and the screen 4. What are the good surface for reflector? a) smooth b) shiny c) hard 5. What are uses of reflection of light in daily life? a) side mirror of a car b) reflector mirror at shop/road c) a dental mirror d) mirror in barber shop e)periscope 6. What are devices that use the principle of light? a) periscope - reflection b) kaleidoscope reflection c) microscope refraction d) telescope refraction e) binocular - refraction 7. HEAT 1. What is heat ? Heat is form of energy 2. What is temperature and the unit? Temperature is a measurement of how hot or cold a substance is. The unit is degree celsius (0C)

3. What are the types of thermometer? a) clinical thermometer b) digital thermometer c) laboratory thermometer 4. What are the activities that shows the effect of expansion or contraction of matter? a) the iron ball expends when heated and contracts when cooled b) water colour level rise when heated and water colour level drop when cooled c) the balloon expands when heated and contracts when cooled 5. What are the examples of the application of the principle of expansion and contraction in daily life? a) electric cable are installed loosely to prevent them from snapping when they contract in cold weather b) there are gaps in railway tracks to allow for expansion in hot weather c) the bottle cap expands when heated 8. STATE OF MATTER 1. What are state of matter? a) solid b) liquid c) gas 2. What are the properties of solids, liquid & gas? 3. What are the processes involved when matter changes from one state to another? a) melting solid to liquid b) boiling liquid to steam(gas) c) evaporation liquid to steam(gas) d) freezing liquid to solid e) condensation gas to liquid 4. What are the factors that affect the rate of evaporation of water? a) wind b) temperature c) surface area 5. How are clouds formed? Water evaporates - water vapour to condense to form water droplets - clouds rain 6. What are the importance of water cycle? a) continuous supply of water b) survive all living thing 7. How do we keep our water resources clean? a) treat waste water b) do not throw rubbish into the rivers c) do not build factories near water resources

d) check the quality of water 9. ACID & ALKALI 1. How the acidic, alkaline or neutral substances determined? substances Acid Alkali neutral Blue litmus paper Turns red No change No change Red litmus paper No change Turns blue No change taste Sour Bitter Except sour & bitter

10. CONSTELLATION 1. What is constellation? A constellation is a group of stars in the sky that appears to form a certain pattern 2. State the various of constellations. a) orion hunter north b) big dipper ladle north c) scorpion scorpion d) southern cross kite south e) ursa major great bear f) leo lion 3.What is the importance of constellation? a) to guide direction c) to study other stars d) can be used as a calendar e) to indicate the time to carry out certain activities 11. THE EARTH, MOON & SUN 1. How does the earth move around the sun? a) rotates on its axis west to east 24 hours b) moves around the sun 365 days( 1 year) 2. What are the changes in length and position of our shadows through out the day? a) in morning shadow is longer and points to west b) at midday shadow is shortest c) in afternoon shadow is longer and points to east

3. How does the occurrence of day and night? the rotation of the earth on its axis around the sun, 4. Why is the moon bright? The moon does not emit light because it reflects the light from the sun 5. State the phases of the moon. a) new moon 1st e) full moon 15th b) crescent 3rd f) gibbous moon th c) half moon 7 g) half moon d)gibbous moon h) old crescent 12. STRENGTH & STABILITY 1. What are the basic shapes of object? a) cube b) cuboid c) cone d) cylinder e) sphere f) pyramid 2. What are the factors that affect the strength of a structure? a) types of materials b) size of structure c) shape of structure 3. What are the factors that affect stability of objects? a) the base area the bigger base area, the more stable the structure b) the height shorter structure are more stable than taller structure

SCIENCE YEAR 6 QUESTIONS/ANSWERS 1. INTERACTION AMONG LIVING THING SIGN 1 SIGN 2 SIGN3

1. What is meaning of solitary animals and group animals? Solitary animals is animal that live alone in their habitat own habitat. Group animals is animals that live together as a group. 2. What is competition? Interaction among species when a resources needed are limited 3. Animals compete for what? a) food b) water c) mate d) shelter e) territory/space

4. Plants compete for what? a) water b) space c) sunlight 5. State 5 extinct animals. a) dodo bird b) quagga d) wooly rhinocerous e) dinasour

d) nutrients c) Caspian tiger

6. What is meaning of endangered species? Endangered species are species of animals or plants facing the threat of extinction. 7. State 8 endangered species. a) rhinocerous b) orang utan c) panda d) tapir e) leatherback sea turtle f) hornbill g) rafflesia e) pitcher plan 8. How to prevent the extinction of species? a) organizing campaign against excessive logging b) educating the public about protecting and conserving species c) avoid buying product made from endangered species d) enforcing the law e) reforestation 9. What are humans activities that can cause extinction species? a) illegal and excessive logging b) illegal and excessive hunting c) excessive development by deforestation 10. What are impact on the environment from the humans activities? a) soil erosion b) water pollution c) landslide d) air pollution e) flash flood 2. FORCE 1. What is force? A force is a push or a pull, we cannot see a force, but we can observe and feel its effects.

2. What can a force change? a) move a stationary object b) stop a moving object c) change the direction of a moving object d) change the speed of a moving object e) change the shape of an object 3. What is friction? Friction is a type of force that slows down a moving object, where its opposes 4. What are the way to reduce friction? a) rollers or ball bearings b) talcum powder c) oil, wax or grease d) air cushion e) smoothening the surface f) an aerodynamic shape 5. What are the advantages of friction? a) walk on a wet surface without slipping b) slow down and stop a vehicle c) to hold objects firmly in our hand d) to sharpen a knife/scissors 6. What are the disadvantages of friction? a) worn out tyre b) produces unwanted heat in machines c) produces unpleasant noise 7. What are the factor that affect friction? a) type of surface smooth/rough b) mass of object 3. SPEED 1. What is speed? Speed is a measurement of distance over a period of time

2. What is formula of speed? Speed =distance Time 4. FOOD PRESERVATION 1. What are suitable conditions for microorganisms growing?

a) water d) air

b) nutrient(food) c) suitable pH(acidic) c) suitable temperature(moist & warm) d) vacuum packing h) bottling/canning

2. How we can preserve our food? a) drying b) cooling c) boiling e) pickling f) freezing g) pasteurising i) salting j) smoking k) waxing

3. What are importance of preserving food? a) food can last longer b) can be easily stored in smaller container c) reduce wastage of food d) source of income for families & countries 5. WASTE MANAGEMENT 1. What are the sources of waste? a) wastes from home b) wastes from factories c) wastes from vehicles & open burning d) wastes from farms e) wastes from stall/markets 2. What are the proper ways of disposing waste? a) use waste bin b) bury organic wastes c) treat waste at sewage treatment plant d) install air cleaning devices at the exhausts 3. What are the harmful effects of improper waste disposal ? a) air pollution b) water pollution c) diseases d) acid rain e) flashfloods 4. What is biodegradable? Biodegradable is the material that can be decayed by microorganisms 5. What is non-biodegradable? Non-biodegradable is the material that cannot be broken down by microorganisms 6. ECLIPSES 1. How do an eclipses occurs? An eclipse occurs when the earth, moon and sun are positioned in a straight line.

2. What are types of eclipse? a) Lunar eclipse b) Solar eclipse 3. How do the lunar eclipse occurs? Lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is between the moon and the sun in a straight line 4. How do the solar eclipse occurs? Solar eclipse occurs when the moon is between the earth and the sun in a straight line 7. MACHINES 1. What is machines? Machines are devices that help us to do our work more easily 2. State 7 types of machines and give 2 examples. a) wheel and axle roller skate, water tap b) lever - nail clippers, wheelbarrow c) wedge - chisel, axe d) pulley - crane, flag stand e) gear - eggbeater, bicycle ring f) inclined plane - escalator, a slide g) screw - screw, nut 3. What is complex machines? Complex machines are made up of more than one simple machines. 4. State 6 complex machines and simple machines in its. a) bicycle wheel & axle, lever, screw b) scissors - lever, wedge, screw c) eggbeater - wheel & axle, gear d) wheelbarrow - wheel & axle, lever e) roller coaster - wheel & axle, screw, inclined plans f) fishing rod - lever, pulley