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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

5-PS1-1

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1.Why can you not see the air around you?
  • A.There is nothing there
  • B.It is made of pieces of matter too small to see
  • C.It is hidden by light
2.A syringe with its end blocked cannot be pushed all the way in. Why?
  • A.The syringe is broken
  • B.Air pulls the plunger back by magic
  • C.The air inside is matter, and it takes up space
3.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
4.Wind pushes a sailing boat along. What does that show about air?
  • A.Boats move by themselves
  • B.Moving air is matter that can push on things
  • C.Air is empty space
5.An "empty" bottle is held mouth-down under water and tilted. Bubbles come out. What were they?
  • A.Water that turned into gas
  • B.Nothing, it was empty
  • C.Air that was in the bottle all along
6.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
7.Which holds more matter: a flat soccer ball or the same soccer ball pumped hard?
  • A.They hold exactly the same
  • B.The pumped soccer ball, because it holds more air
  • C.The flat soccer ball
8.A flat basketball is pumped up and gets bigger and firmer. Why?
  • A.The ball has warmed up
  • B.The rubber has grown
  • C.More air has been pushed inside it

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Answer key — Air Is Something Too

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.It is made of pieces of matter too small to see
  2. 2.The air inside is matter, and it takes up space
  3. 3.The air inside can be squeezed into a smaller space
  4. 4.Moving air is matter that can push on things
  5. 5.Air that was in the bottle all along
  6. 6.No, the same air takes up less space when it is cold
  7. 7.The pumped soccer ball, because it holds more air
  8. 8.More air has been pushed inside it

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