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Animal Needs Worksheet

A Grade 5 science worksheet focusing on the essential needs of animals for survival, including food, water, shelter, and air.

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Animal Needs

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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your knowledge of what animals need to survive.

1. Which of the following is NOT a basic need for most animals?

a

Food

b

Water

c

Television

d

Shelter

2. What do animals use for energy to grow and move?

a

Sunlight

b

Food

c

Rocks

d

Soil

3. Animals need   to breathe and release energy from their food.

4. A place where an animal lives and finds food and shelter is called its  .

5. All animals eat the same type of food to survive.

T

True

F

False

6. Water is an essential need for all living things, including animals.

T

True

F

False

7. Describe two ways animals obtain the water they need to survive.

Use the words below to complete the sentences.

Oxygen
Habitat
Food
Shelter

8. A bird builds a nest in a tree to provide   for its young.

9. Animals get their   from plants or other animals.