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For this assessment students read a paragraph of information about the stars. They use this to complete a table that summarises all this information.

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

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

A diagram representing an area of a civil emergency is provided and students are asked to identify the geological event that has caused this. Students then give six hazards or problems that could result from this geological event.

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 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.

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

Students classify 12 common substances as either a compound, mixture, or element.

For this practical students are required to investigate how the use of pulleys affects the effort force needed to raise a load. Students gather results, write a conclusion, and describe two situations in which a pulley system would be useful.

Task: Answer two multiple choice questions. Assessment focus: managing variables.

Task: Use displacement to measure volume. Assessment focus: displacement.

Students read a passage about a proposed fair test and then list four variables that need to be controlled.

Students carry out and make observations about water in a straw, and suction. Students are then required to explain their observations.

Task: Identify which variables should be kept the same to compare reaction times. Assessment focus: control of variables.

Students read some information about testing the absorbency of different papers. They outline two features that need to be kept the same if the tests were to be fair.

Students answer five questions about 'fair testing' for an outlined investigation.

Task: Describe what happens to ice in a glass of water, giving reasons, and explain where water forming on the outside of the glass comes from. Assessment focus: changes of state.

Students give two pieces of information a scientist could learn from placing bands on the legs of birds.

Students are provided with pictures of birds and fish and then asked to describe how fish and birds look different and how they look similar.

Students are provided with six drawings of different types of insects. They use the drawings to explain two features of insects and to explain differences between the insects illustrated.

Task: Answer questions about how a thermometer works. Assessment focus: expansion of water on heating.

Students use two diagrams of the night sky to answer a multiple-choice question on each.

For this task students are provided with a table of weather observations for a day in September. Students are required to write a weather report using headings that have been provided.

Students are provided with data showing the temperature and the cloud cover over a one week period. Students use this information to identify the two nights that would be the best to protect plants outside from possible frost damage and also to identify why protection is needed on such nights.