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Grade 5 Plants Make Food: Energy from the Sun Worksheet with Answers

Grade 5 (US) · Year 6 (UK) · Class 5 (India) · Science

Unit 3: Matter & Energy in EcosystemsEnergy from the SunNGSS 5-PS3-1

How plants use sunlight to make food and how that energy reaches animals. This free upper elementary worksheet has 14 questions and a full answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF — every answer is checked by code, not guessed.

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Plants Make Food: Energy from the Sun

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Learning goal: Energy from the Sun · NGSS 5-PS3-1

Directions: This worksheet has 3 parts. Read the instructions at the start of each part.

Part A

Label the diagram. Use the words in the box.

Word bank

herbivoreproducercarnivoredecomposer
GrassRabbitFoxMushroomsArrows show the flow of energy1234
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
Part B

Match each clue to the right word. Write the letter in the box.

  1. 5What do plants make during photosynthesis?
  2. 6What do decomposers return to the soil?
  3. 7Where does the energy in food first come from?
  4. 8What gas do plants give off that animals breathe?
  • AFood and oxygen
  • BSun
  • CNutrients
  • DOxygen
Part C

Answer each question. Use full sentences where you can.

  1. 9

    Why do animals need to eat plants or other animals?

  2. 10

    What do animals get from eating food?

  3. 11

    Do plants get their food from the soil?

  4. 12

    What do plants need to make food?

  5. 13

    How does energy from the sun get into a hawk?

  6. 14

    Where does most of a tree's mass come from?

★ Challenge corner for fast finishers

I am a star that you can see in the daytime. What am I?

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  1. 1.producer
  2. 2.herbivore
  3. 3.carnivore
  4. 4.decomposer
  5. 5.A — food (sugar) and oxygen
  6. 6.C — nutrients (matter)
  7. 7.B — the sun
  8. 8.D — oxygen
  9. 9.they can't make their own food
  10. 10.energy and materials to grow
  11. 11.no — they make it from air and water using sunlight
  12. 12.sunlight, water and carbon dioxide
  13. 13.sun → plant → mouse → hawk
  14. 14.carbon dioxide from the air
  15. ★the sun (challenge corner)

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