Grade 5 NST Term 1 Test 1 + Memo

Help your Grade 5 learner prepare for Term 1 Natural Science & Technology (NST) with this comprehensive ATP-aligned 40-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 45 minutes.

The test covers:

• Living Things & Life Cycles: the characteristics and needs of living things, butterfly and chicken life cycles, metamorphosis, mammals, plants and animals, as well as distinguishing between living and non-living things.
• Plants & Reproduction: photosynthesis, pollination, plant life cycles, seeds and seedlings, and understanding how plants make their own food.
• Animal Structures & Classification: vertebrates, invertebrates, mammals, amphibians, endoskeletons, exoskeletons and shell structures, including how structures provide animals with support and protection.
• Food Chains & Interdependence: identifying producers and consumers, arranging organisms in the correct food-chain order and understanding how plants and animals depend on one another for survival.
• Animals & Their Habitats: exploring adaptations, habitats and survival, including how barn owls are suited to catching small animals and how habitat loss can affect animal populations.
• Applying Scientific Knowledge: understanding how human activities such as using chemicals on trees and removing natural habitats can affect organisms and food chains.

Question types include: true or false, matching, fill-in-the-blanks, diagram labelling, life cycles, food-chain interpretation, short-answer questions and longer application responses.

ATP aligned | Total: 40 marks | Duration: 45 minutes | Full memorandum included | PDF format.