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Task: Answer questions about what happens to the light form a torch. Assessment focus: light.

Task: Answer a multiple choice questions about what would be seen on earth if a meteor hit the moon, and explain why that answer is correct. Assessment focus: how sound and light travel.

Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.

Task: Answer questions about recycling aluminium by interpreting a fact file. Assessment focus: Recycling.

Students use the Modified Mercalli intensity scale to assign magnitudes to three described earthquakes. Then they interpret data about the distance from an epicentre, and explain why, from given information, one earthquake might be more damaging than another.

Students use diagrams of rock layers to answer questions concerning geological history, oldest layer, and to account for the presence of fossils.

This task consists of two multiple-choice questions on humidity.

Students identify three different places where food can be put to keep it cool. Students also explain why keeping food cool is beneficial.

Students name things that are protected by paint. Students also explain why metal needs protecting.

Students are given a mind map showing some properties of carbon dioxide. Students identify each of these as either a physical or chemical property.

Students are asked to give a useful property for each of four materials used in different situations.

Students use a list that has some properties of glass to help them answer four questions about glass use.

Students answer three questions about information found on a bottle of bleach.

Students use a table on solubility/insolubility of 16 compounds to determine the validity of four statements and justify with evidence from the table.

Information on particle size and boiling point is provided for three alcohols. Students use this to place these substances in order of particle size and increasing boiling point.

Students select which type of sugar would dissolve fastest and explain why.

Students are provided with drawings of three methods to collect gases and the characteristics of four gases. Students match the gases with the method of collection that would need to be used.

Using provided data students decide which of three liquids would freeze if placed in a freezer. Students explain what happens to particles when they freeze and how the level changes due to freezing.

Students label six diagrams as an element, compound, or mixture.

Students decide if each of three sentences about solids, liquids, and gases is true or false and then give a reason for their answer.

Students decide whether four statements about particular nature of matter are true or false and then give a reason for their answer.

Task: Fill in a chart to identify the damage caused by various animal pests. Assessment focus: specific contextual knowledge about animal pests.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in or near a waterway, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a waterways environment.

Students are given a diagram and information on the ratios of black- to grey-coated possums. Students answer questions relating to this information as well as identifying a method that could be used to determine the percentage of each coat colour.

Students answer three questions about data contained in pie graphs about the food wild cats eat.