Grade 6 NST November Test + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 6 learner prepare for the November assessments with this comprehensive 60-mark Natural Science practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1½ hours.
The test covers:
- Energy and Change
- Electricity and electric circuits
- Conductors and insulators
- Batteries, cells, light bulbs, switches and wires
- Series circuits and circuit symbols
- Fossil fuels and electricity generation
- Power stations
- Renewable and non-renewable energy
- Solar, wind and hydro energy
- Saving electricity and conserving resources
- Earth and Beyond
- The Sun as Earth’s main source of energy
- Earth’s rotation and revolution
- Day and night
- Earth’s orbit around the Sun
- The Moon and its phases
- Craters on the Moon
- Earth’s atmosphere
- Seasons and temperature changes
- Telescopes and space exploration
- Planet suitability for human life
- Mars and the Curiosity Rover
- Mars’ climate and geology
- Scientific instruments used by Curiosity
- Evidence of water and possible past life on Mars
- Future Mars exploration
The test includes fill-in-the-blanks, matching, true or false, short-answer questions, circuit drawing and labelling, visual interpretation and extended application questions. Learners are also challenged to apply their knowledge by considering what scientists would investigate when determining whether another planet could support human life.
Total: 60 marks | Duration: 1½ hours | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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