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Air Is Something Too is a free printable Grade 5 science worksheet on evidence that air and other gases are matter that takes up space, aligned to NGSS performance expectation 5-PS1-1. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Air Is Something Too

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1.An "empty" bottle is held mouth-down under water and tilted. Bubbles come out. What were they?
  • A.Air that was in the bottle all along
  • B.Water that turned into gas
  • C.Nothing, it was empty
2.Which holds more matter: a flat soccer ball or the same soccer ball pumped hard?
  • A.The pumped soccer ball, because it holds more air
  • B.They hold exactly the same
  • C.The flat soccer ball
3.A cup is pushed upside down into water and a tissue inside it stays dry. Why?
  • A.Air trapped in the cup fills the space, so the water cannot get in
  • B.The water is too cold
  • C.Tissue cannot get wet
4.The blocked syringe can be pushed in a little way. What does that show?
  • A.The plunger has shrunk
  • B.The air has disappeared
  • C.The air inside can be squeezed into a smaller space
5.A syringe with its end blocked cannot be pushed all the way in. Why?
  • A.The air inside is matter, and it takes up space
  • B.Air pulls the plunger back by magic
  • C.The syringe is broken
6.A ball is weighed flat, then pumped full of air. What happens to its mass?
  • A.It goes up slightly, because air has mass
  • B.It stays exactly the same, because air weighs nothing
  • C.It goes down
7.Drops form on the outside of a cold glass of juice. Where did the water come from?
  • A.The glass made it
  • B.Water vapor in the air, a gas that turned back into liquid on the cold glass
  • C.The juice leaked through the glass
8.A balloon tied tight shrinks a little in the freezer. Has any air got out?
  • A.Yes, half the air escaped
  • B.No, the same air takes up less space when it is cold
  • C.Yes, the air turned to ice

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Answer key — Air Is Something Too

Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Air that was in the bottle all along
  2. 2.The pumped soccer ball, because it holds more air
  3. 3.Air trapped in the cup fills the space, so the water cannot get in
  4. 4.The air inside can be squeezed into a smaller space
  5. 5.The air inside is matter, and it takes up space
  6. 6.It goes up slightly, because air has mass
  7. 7.Water vapor in the air, a gas that turned back into liquid on the cold glass
  8. 8.No, the same air takes up less space when it is cold

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 5-PS1-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.