Plants & Animals - Grade 5 Science Worksheet 7 - 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. This plant stores food in its stem:
2. Which plant part absorbs minerals?

Frequently asked questions

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.

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.