Science Cat 1 Examination Term 2
Year 6 2025
Bambino Primary Continuous Assessment Test 1
Name
Class: Year 6 Date:
30 MARKS
1 Write down whether each of these statements is true or false.
a. You measure the volume of sound with a loudspeaker.
________ [1]
b. You play a guitar by plucking the strings. ________
c. Low sounds are caused by slow vibrations.
________ [1]
d. Sound only travels through air.
________ [1]
e. Soft materials are better than hard materials for muffling sound.
_______ [1]
f. Sound travels best through solids.
_________
[1]
g. Loud sounds are caused by fast vibrations. _________
[1]
2 Describe each of the following sounds as high, low, quiet or loud:
A whisper
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A bird singing
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A cow mooing
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An ambulance siren.
_____________________________________________________________________
[4]
3 Lily plays a musical instrument.
She blows into the instrument. This makes a sound.
(a) In what units is sound volume measured.? Circle the correct answer from the words
listed below.
Decibel Volume Pitch muffle [1]
(b) Describe how blowing into the instrument makes a sound.
_____________________________________________________________________
(c) What does Lily do to make the sound louder?
______________________________________________________________________
(d) The table shows the lowest pitch and highest pitch of five musical instruments.
musical pitch in units
instrument
lowest highest
clarinet 230 880
guitar 40 990
oboe 220 880
trombone 110 440
tuba 55 220
Which musical instrument has 220 units as its lowest pitch?
____________________________________________________________________
[1]
What is the highest pitch of the trombone?
units
[1]
Which musical instrument has the largest difference in pitch
_____________________________________________________________________
[1]
4 Mia has ten boxes. Each box has a fact about the Earth. Only four of the boxes
have true
facts. One box with a true fact has been ticked for you.
tick the boxes of the other three true facts.
The Earth spins The Earth only The Earth The Earth takes
on its axis. spins in the The Earth orbits 24
spinning on its
morning. the Sun. hours to orbit
axis
causes day the Sun.
and night.
The Earth takes a The Earth The Earth takes The Earth takes The Earth spins
year moves very a year to orbit 24 to the
to spin on its close to the the moon. hours to spin on left and then to
axis. Sun and then its axis. the right.
stops.
[3]
5 The diagram shows the path of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Earth
a. Complete the sentences.
The direction the Earth moves around the Sun is.
The shape of the orbit is called .
[1]
b. How many days does it take the Earth to complete one full orbit of the Sun?
days
[1]
c. The Earth is surrounded by a layer of air called the atmosphere.
Write down the name of two gases found in the atmosphere.
_________________________
[2]
d. draw arrows on the diagram of the Earths orbit to show the direction of the earth on its
orbit [1]
e. On average how long is the distance from the sun to the Earth? Choose from the list
below. [1]
155 million km 150million km 200million km 100 million
km
6 Fill the gaps with correct words in the following questions.
It is summer at the North pole. This means that the North pole is tilting
_____________the sun [1]
away from towards
It is summer in the southern hemisphere. It means it is _________________ in the
southern hemisphere [1]
Summer winter Autumn Spring
What part of the earth will not experience summer of winter all year round.
__________________________________________________________________ [1]
