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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 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
2.A ball is weighed flat, then pumped full of air. What happens to its mass?
  • A.It goes down
  • B.It goes up slightly, because air has mass
  • C.It stays exactly the same, because air weighs nothing
3.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
4.You blow through a straw into a glass of water. What are the bubbles?
  • A.Air from your lungs, pushed into the water
  • B.Soap
  • C.Water turning into steam
5.A balloon tied tight shrinks a little in the freezer. Has any air got out?
  • A.Yes, the air turned to ice
  • B.No, the same air takes up less space when it is cold
  • C.Yes, half the air escaped
6.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.Tissue cannot get wet
  • C.The water is too cold
7.The blocked syringe can be pushed in a little way. What does that show?
  • A.The air has disappeared
  • B.The air inside can be squeezed into a smaller space
  • C.The plunger has shrunk
8.Why can you not see the air around you?
  • A.It is hidden by light
  • B.There is nothing there
  • C.It is made of pieces of matter too small to see

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Answer key — Air Is Something Too

Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.More air has been pushed inside it
  2. 2.It goes up slightly, because air has mass
  3. 3.Water vapor in the air, a gas that turned back into liquid on the cold glass
  4. 4.Air from your lungs, pushed into the water
  5. 5.No, the same air takes up less space when it is cold
  6. 6.Air trapped in the cup fills the space, so the water cannot get in
  7. 7.The air inside can be squeezed into a smaller space
  8. 8.It is made of pieces of matter too small to see

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