Grade Two Science End of Year Exam – June 2011

Revision Paper 1 (Chapters8-9)

What is Matter?
Look around your classroom. Everything you see is made of small parts
called matter. Some things you cannot see are made of matter. The air
around you has matter.

Different kinds of matter have different properties. A property is

something that you can observe with your senses. Some properties of
matter are color, shape, and size. Mass is a property of matter. How
something feels is a property of matter.

What properties of matter do these things have?

object properties

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 Grade Two Science End of Year Exam – June 2011
Revision Paper 1 (Chapters8-9)

What are the states of matter?

You know that everything around you is made of matter. The three
states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas.

A solid is matter that has its own size and shape.

A liquid does not have its own shape. Liquids take the
shape of their containers.

A gas does not have its own shape. Gas takes the size
and shape of its container. Gas can change size and
shape.

What are some examples of solids

solids, liquids,
liquids, and gases?
gases?

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 Grade Two Science End of Year Exam – June 2011
Revision Paper 1 (Chapters8-9)

What is energy?
Anything that can do work and cause change has energy.

Solar energy is heat and light from the Sun. People and animals use
sunlight to see in the daytime. Earth would stay dark without the sun.

When you have sun and rain together, raindrops in the air can bend
sunlight. Then the sunlight is separated into the colors in a rainbow.

Other types of energy are sound, light, heat, motion, and electricity.

What is solar energy?

energy?

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How is a rainbow made?
made?

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Name six different types of energy?
energy?

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