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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.Why can you not see the air around you?
  • A.There is nothing there
  • B.It is hidden by light
  • C.It is made of pieces of matter too small to see
2.Wind pushes a sailing boat along. What does that show about air?
  • A.Moving air is matter that can push on things
  • B.Air is empty space
  • C.Boats move by themselves
3.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.Nothing, it was empty
  • C.Water that turned into gas
4.A ball is weighed flat, then pumped full of air. What happens to its mass?
  • A.It stays exactly the same, because air weighs nothing
  • B.It goes down
  • C.It goes up slightly, because air has mass
5.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
6.You blow through a straw into a glass of water. What are the bubbles?
  • A.Air from your lungs, pushed into the water
  • B.Water turning into steam
  • C.Soap
7.The blocked syringe can be pushed in a little way. What does that show?
  • A.The plunger has shrunk
  • B.The air inside can be squeezed into a smaller space
  • C.The air has disappeared
8.Which holds more matter: a flat soccer ball or the same soccer ball pumped hard?
  • A.They hold exactly the same
  • B.The flat soccer ball
  • C.The pumped soccer ball, because it holds more air

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Answer key — Air Is Something Too

Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.It is made of pieces of matter too small to see
  2. 2.Moving air is matter that can push on things
  3. 3.Air that was in the bottle all along
  4. 4.It goes up slightly, because air has mass
  5. 5.Water vapor in the air, a gas that turned back into liquid on the cold glass
  6. 6.Air from your lungs, pushed into the water
  7. 7.The air inside can be squeezed into a smaller space
  8. 8.The pumped soccer ball, because it holds more air

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