Plants & Animals - Grade 5 Science Worksheet 4 - 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

• Describe reproduction in flowering plants, including pollination, fertilisation and seed formation.
• Use accurate vocabulary such as habitat, species, producer, consumer and decomposer.
• Explain photosynthesis and respiration in simple terms and say where in the plant each happens.
• Classify animals into vertebrate groups and justify the choice with more than one feature.

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 eat meat are called:
2. The ability of animals to blend with surroundings is:

Frequently asked questions

How much detail should a Grade 5 answer contain?

Enough to name the process and its inputs - for photosynthesis, sunlight, water and carbon dioxide, and the leaf as the place it happens. Correct terminology matters more at this grade than at any earlier one.

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.