Planet Earth resources

Task: Identify seasons from events described. Assessment focus: seasons.

Students answer three questions about the Hubble Space Telescope.

Students answer two questions about preventing erosion and flooding by a river.

For this task students select two kinds of activity from those labelled on a diagram of an erupting volcano. Students write a description and the problems or dangers associated with each activity.

Students are provided with a newspaper article titled 'Gentle quake the latest in swarm' and use this to answer three questions.

Students are provided with two photographs of an area, one before a tree planting programme and one five years later. Students are asked to write an article on how tree-planting helps the environment.

Students are asked to identify two impending signs of a volcanic eruption and to describe four geological events that are linked to volcanic eruptions.

Students are given a diagram of a glacier, and asked to identify natural hazards and the possible effect of increased temperature on the position of the glacier snout.

Students explain their understandings of the benefits of having trees in the school playground.

Students are asked to explain the meaning of the terms, recycle, reduce, and reuse.

Students answer three short answer questions on weather, frost, and clouds.

For this task students identify what may cause clouds to be at different heights and then interpret weather information to answer a multiple-choice question about fog.

Students review their knowledge of greenhouse gases and the effects of global warming. They identify areas where they are unsure, as well as things they know.

In this NEMP task students look at photos to describe similar and different environmental features of the moon, the Earth, Mars and the sun. Assessment focus: The solar system. In the original NEMP task the assessor gave oral instructions, read the questions and wrote the answers for each student.

Three multiple choice questions ask students to identify the most likely times for sun rise, sun set, and which diagram best illustrates night and day.

Students answer questions about major natural events that happened on the Earth in one week by interpreting a diagram showing these.

Students are asked three multiple-choice questions that relate to tides, the full moon and a solar eclipse.

Students are provided with a diagram that shows some ways water moves in a water cycle. Students are required to explain what is happening in three places and explain how water that falls as snow might get to the sea.