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

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Answer key — Air Is Something Too

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Air trapped in the cup fills the space, so the water cannot get in
  2. 2.The air inside is matter, and it takes up space
  3. 3.The pumped soccer ball, because it holds more air
  4. 4.More air has been pushed inside it
  5. 5.Water vapor in the air, a gas that turned back into liquid on the cold glass
  6. 6.It goes up slightly, because air has mass
  7. 7.Air that was in the bottle all along
  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.