Plants & Animals - Grade 5 Science Worksheet 1 - Free Printable

Download this free printable Plants & Animals worksheet for Grade 5 Science. Perfect for practice, homework, and classroom use.

Grade 5 Science practice

This printable Plants & Animals worksheet is part of the free WizKidsHub Grade 5 Science collection. Print it at home or in the classroom for extra practice.

What this worksheet teaches

• Classify animals into vertebrate groups and justify the choice with more than one feature.
• Trace energy through a food web and predict what happens if one organism is removed.
• Explain how structural and behavioural adaptations help survival in a specific habitat.
• Describe reproduction in flowering plants, including pollination, fertilisation and seed formation.

How to use this worksheet

Use the food-web questions as a prediction exercise. Cover one organism with a finger and ask what happens to the rest. Grade 5 students who can only recite a chain often struggle the moment a link is removed, and this is exactly what exam-style questions test.

Sample questions from this worksheet

1. Animals that give birth to young ones:
2. A chameleon can change its:

Frequently asked questions

My child confuses photosynthesis and respiration. Any tips?

Very common, because both involve gases. Anchor it by purpose: photosynthesis makes food and happens mainly in the light; respiration releases energy from that food and happens all the time, in plants as well as animals.

Are decomposers included?

Yes, food-web questions at Grade 5 usually include decomposers, since energy returning to the soil is part of the expected picture at this level.

Is this suitable revision before a test?

Yes. The mix of labelling, classification and short explanation questions matches the format of most Grade 5 science assessments on living things.