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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.It is made of pieces of matter too small to see
  • B.There is nothing there
  • C.It is hidden by light
2.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, the air turned to ice
  • C.Yes, half the air escaped
3.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
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.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 flat basketball is pumped up and gets bigger and firmer. Why?
  • A.The ball has warmed up
  • B.More air has been pushed inside it
  • C.The rubber has grown
7.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
8.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

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Answer key — Air Is Something Too

Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.It is made of pieces of matter too small to see
  2. 2.No, the same air takes up less space when it is cold
  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.Water vapor in the air, a gas that turned back into liquid on the cold glass
  6. 6.More air has been pushed inside it
  7. 7.The pumped soccer ball, because it holds more air
  8. 8.It goes up slightly, because air has mass

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