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Materials - Testing

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At school you have looked at different materials. You have done simple tests on materials. Things we can test, like strength or stretchiness, are called properties. How can you test which material is the strongest or which material is the stretchiest? Can you plan how to test different materials? In this quiz, you are asked about the best ways to test the properties of different materials.

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1 .

Freddie has two bottles of tomato sauce. He wants to know which one is the runniest. How can he test them to find out?

Shake both the bottles

Squeeze both the bottles

Turn both the bottles upside down at the same time and see which one comes out quickest

Turn both bottles upside down and shake them

This could be a messy experiment!

2 .

Ella's mom and dad have a plastic bag, a cardboard bag, a paper bag, and a leather bag. How can Ella test to see which is the strongest bag?

Pour water into each bag

Put weights into each bag

Look at the bags with a magnifying glass

Jump up and down on the bags

Which one of the four bags do you think will be the strongest? Which do you think will be the weakest?

3 .

Adam wants to find the stretchiest material.

Adam has a piece of string, a piece of wool, a piece of cotton, and a rubber band. They are all 10 cm long.

Adam ties a 50 gram weight to each one.

What must Adam measure to find out which one is stretchiest?

Measure the length before and after adding the weight

Only measure the length before adding the weight

Measure how heavy the weight is

Measure the temperature

Which one of the four materials do you think will be the stretchiest?

4 .

Ali has a piece of paper and a piece of card. She wants to know which is the shiniest. How can she test to see which is the shiniest?

Look at them in the dark

Shine a torch on them and see which one reflects the most light

Try cutting them with scissors

Try stretching them

Mirrors are very shiny

5 .

Anna has a bag of flour and a bag of feathers. She does a test to decide which is the softest. She asks ten people to put their hands into the bags and say which is softest. Here are her results:

7 people say the feathers are softest. 2 people say the flour is softest. 1 person says they are both as soft as each other.

What has Anna found out?

Flour is softer than feathers

Feathers are probably softer than flour

Flour and feathers are both as soft as each other

Feathers are soft

That was a hard question!

6 .

Tom has some straws. One is made of plastic. One is made of paper. One is made of waxed card. One is made of rubber. Tom wants to know which material is the bendiest. How can Tom test to see which one is the bendiest?

Drink through each straw in turn

See how far each straw will twist round a beaker

Pull hard on each straw

Squash the straws with weights

The bendiest straw is the most flexible straw

7 .

Anna has a bag of flour and a bag of feathers. She wants to check which is the softest. What should she do?

Put her hand into the bags and say which one is softest.

Ask two people to put their hands into the bags and say which is softest.

Ask ten people to put their hands into the bags and say which is softest.

Ask ten people to look into the bags and say which is softest.

In this test, ask as many people as possible

8 .

Sarah has six glass bottles. They are all different colors. Sarah wants to know which glass bottle is most transparent. What can she do?

Shine a torch through each one and see which is brightest

Shine a torch through each one and see which is dullest

Tip the bottles upside down

Roll the bottles along the floor

Don’t forget, you can see through a transparent material

9 .

Toni has four blocks of wood. The four blocks of wood are all the same size and weight. Some are smooth and some are rough. How can Toni find out which block of wood is the smoothest?

Pull them along the ground with a piece of string

Drop them all from a table onto the floor

Put them on a slide and see which one goes furthest

Put them on a slide and see which one does not move

How can you make a piece of wood smoother?

10 .

Grace has two boxes of tissues. Grace wants to know which tissue is best.

She takes one tissue from each box. She puts them in saucers. Then she pours a teaspoon of water on each tissue.

How does Grace know which tissue is best?