XIN ZHONG PRIMARY SCHOOL

School Year 2022 – 2023

SCIENCE REVIEW 3 – PARTICLES

Semester 1 – Primary 4

Name / Class / No: Date:

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
DIRECTIONS: Read the following questions and choose the best answer by writing the letter in
the bracket.

1. Look at three objects below.

Which one of the following statements is correct?

A. The cotton is the lightest

B. The flour is the heaviest
C. The paper is heavier than the cotton but lighter than the flour
D. All of the above matter have the same mass [ ]

2. Lily filled each of the containers below with 200 ml of water.

From the picture above, she can conclude that water has ______________________.

A. no mass and volume

B. a definite shape
C. no definite volume
D. no definite shape [ ]

3. Which of the following groups are example of MATTER?

A. Glue, paint, ice

B. Music, water, paper
C. Sugar, shadow, soap
D. Syrup, shoe, thunder [ ]

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4. Observe the following picture below.

X W Z
X
W Y

The four objects W, X, Y and Z are of the same size. The order of the objects from the lightest
to the heaviest is __________________.

A. Z, X, W, Y
B. X, Z, Y, W
C. Y, W, X, Z
D. W, Y, Z, X [ ]

5. Which of the following list is CORRECT?

Mass Volume Temperature

A 0C g, kg ml, l, cm3
B g, kg ml, l, cm3 0C

C ml, l, cm3 0C g, kg
D ml, l, cm3 g, kg 0C

[ ]

6. The picture below shows what happens when a pebble is dropped into a measuring cylinder
of water.

From the picture, we can find out the _____________________.

A. mass of the water

B. mass of the pebble
C. volume of the pebble
D. volume of the measuring cylinder [ ]

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 Study the flowchart below carefully and answer questions number 7 and 8.

7. Which of the following matches the letters with sand, oil and oxygen correctly?

Sand Oil Oxygen

A Z X Y
B Y Z X
C Z Y X
D X Y Z

[ ]

8. Where would you place ‘heat’ in the flow chart?

A. W
B. X
C. Y
D. Z [ ]

9. The picture below shows a glass beaker of water on an electronic balance.

The reading on the electronic balance shows the ____________________.

A. volume of the glass beaker

B. volume of the water in the glass beaker
C. mass of the water in the glass beaker
D. mass of the glass beaker and the water [ ]

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10. Observe the following picture.

I II III

Which of the following CORRECTLY represents the picture above?

Solid Liquid Gas

A III II I
B I II III
C II I III
D I III II

[ ]

11. Observe the following picture.

I
II
III
Which of the picture above shows the CORRECT position of the eye when we read the water
level in a cylinder?

A. I
B. II
C. III
D. All of them are correct [ ]

12. Jocelyn used a piece of plasticine to make a model of a car. Then she used the SAME piece
of plasticine and moulded it into a bus. The two models she made have the same
__________________________.

A. shape
B. mass and volume
C. mass but different volume
D. volume but different mass [ ]

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13. Study the pictures below carefully.

X Y Z
800 ml 600 ml 700 ml

The air in container X is to be fully transferred to another container. Which container(s) will be
able to hold all the air from container X?

A. Container Y only
B. Container Z only
C. Container Y and Z
D. None of the containers [ ]

14. Which of the following diagrams shows the water level correctly drawn when the beaker is
tilted?

A. C.

B. D.

[ ]

15. Observe the following picture.

What does X represent?

A. mass of the stone

B. volume of the stone
C. mass of the water
D. mass and volume of the stone [ ]

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II. OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS
DIRECTION: Answer the following questions with short answer.

16. Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks with suitable words.

A.

The ___________________________________ is used to measure the ___________________________

of the marble.

B.

The _____________________________________ is measuring the _______________________________

of the apples.

17. Fred made a shadow using his hand as seen below.

Can you classify the shadow as matter? Explain.

________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________

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18. Air was blown into the glass through the rubber tube using the set-up below.

A. What will happen to the water level in the glass?

________________________________________________________________________________________

B. What does this experiment show?

________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________

19. The diagram below shows three syringes.

Complete the table below.

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20. Study the diagram below carefully.

A. Which set-up above will allow all the water in the funnel to flow into the bottle in the
shortest time?

________________________________________________________________________________________

B. Explain your answer in’A’.

________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________

21. Study the four containers shown below.

A. All the containers appear empty, but they are not. They contain a substance X. What is
substance X?

________________________________________________________________________________________

B. When an equal amount of substance Y is places into each of the containers, substance
Y took the shape of each of the containers. Name two examples of substance Y.

__________________________________________________________________________________________

C. When an equal amount of substance Z is placed into each of the containers, substance
Z did not change its shape, even after several days. Name two examples of substance Z.

__________________________________________________________________________________________

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