Y2 Science

Exploring animals

100

• Some animals have a skeleton inside their body which is called backbone.

What do scientists call these animals?

Vertebrates

200

• What are the five groups called

Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians

300

• Animals that eats plants _________
• Animals that other animals _________
• Animals that eat both plants and animals______________

Herbivores 

Carnivores

Omnivores

400

• What are five senses we use

Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touch

500

Invertebrates

• Some animals have shells or no hard parts at all.

What is it made of

100

• What are the different materials made off.

Hard soft rough smooth

200

• What can materials do to keep water away
• Materials stay on top
• Materials go down

Waterproof

Float

Sink

300

• What are the materials used for

Wood furniture

Plastic spoons brush

Glass eyeglasses

400

• Name a few non-metals

Plastic fabric wood glass rock clay

500

• How is rubber useful

It is waterproof

Pushes and pulls

100

• What makes things move?

Force or stroller

Force

200

• What do runners do when they start

Push their feet

300

• What does a sailboat use to move

Wind

400

Give an example of push and pull

Door open / close

500

• A force to move something away?
• A force to move something towards?

Push

Pull

Making Sounds

100

• What happens when we clap

Makes sound

200

• Some sounds can be _____, and some can be ______

Loud and quite

300

• What happens to the sound when it gets further away?

Gets quieter

400

• Sound travels from the place it is made to our______

Ears

500

• Which piece of equipment is used by scientist to measure sound accurately?

Decibel meter

Plants and Seasons

100

• Name the parts of the plant

Flower, stem leaf, root

200

• Scientists who study the weather are called

Meteorologists

300

• What is a rain gauge?

Record amount of rainfall

400

• Which equipment is used by scientists to measure the weather

Anemometer or wind vane

500

• What are deciduous trees

• What are evergreen trees

some trees lose their leaves

some trees never lose their leaves