Interpret representations resources

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 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.

Students are provided with a map showing wind speed and direction over some landforms. Students explain two ways that mountains affect the wind.

Students are provided with a weather map showing the lower North Island of NZ. Students are required to interpret this map to answer three short answer questions.

Answer questions about rubbish picked up on a beach, and suggest reasons why plastic is the most common rubbish.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers and compare to the water cycle. Assessment focus: evaporation, the water cycle.

Students construct a line graph from provided data, and then write a summary about the data.

Using diagrams of 6 different common situations, students are asked to identify each situation as evaporation, condensation, or neither.

This practical task requires students to make observations and draw diagrams about diffusion that occurs when food colouring is added to water.

Students use a table of some substances and their pHs to answer four questions.

Task: Students draw to show their ideas about what happens when a puddle dries up. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Draw what happens when sugar is added to a cup of coffee. Assessment focus: dissolving.

Students are provided with nutritional information on three different types of milk. Students use this information to answer a number of questions.

Students are given diagrams representing the three states of matter. Students answer four questions relating to these.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of solid, liquid, and gas particles by drawing the particle arrangement for wax vapour, molten wax, and candle wax.

Students interpret a table on the properties of plastics by answering a series of short questions.

Students use information on the properties of five different drinks in order to place them correctly into a key.

Students identify the changes of state that are occurring in a diagram showing the separation of fresh water from seawater.

Students identify the solids, liquids, and gases in three short passages.

Students use provided symbols to write formula and to draw diagrams of different compounds.

Students are given the formula of two different types of chlorophyll. Students name all the elements present, and how the number of atoms differs between the chlorophylls.

Students use a table of information on melting points and boiling points of six different substances to answer questions about states of matter.

Students are given some information about four gases. They use this information and a key to identify the four gases.

Students interpret the diagrams of mixtures, solutions, and pure substances. Then they draw diagrams to represent other combinations of substances.

Students use the periodic table and their own knowledge to complete the types of atoms present, and total number of atoms present for three compounds.