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Students suggest ways to prevent a steep bank slipping. The assessment focus is application of their knowledge about erosion.

For this task students are asked two questions about early Polynesian navigation. Students need to identify features of the environment that explorers would have used to navigate home and to find new land.

Students answer two multiple-choice questions about lightning and determine how far away a thunderstorm is by doing a calculation.

Students are required to identify two major weather features linked to cyclones and three examples of damage they can cause.

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

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

Task: Answer questions about types of solar eclipse. Assessment focus: interpreting diagrams.

Task: multiple choice questions and interpreting a diagram. Assessment focus: phases of the moon.

For this task students understanding of tides is explored. Students are asked to identify where high tides occur when the Moon is in a certain position and how often high tides occur.

Students answer two multiple-choice questions about full Moon and lunar eclipses.

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

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 list advantages and disadvantages of recycling. The assessment focuses on students' ability to identify impacts on the environment and its inhabitants (including people).

Students are provided with five rules to follow during a thunderstorm with lightning. Students select two of these rules and explain the science behind the rule.

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.