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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 are provided with two star maps as seen from Wellington at two different times of the year. Students are asked to explain why the stars on the map appear in different parts of the sky depending on the time of the year.

Students are provided with two diagrams, one showing the focus of earthquakes in NZ and the other the Earth's plates. Students interpret these diagrams and use them to answer three short questions.

Students view four sequential diagrams on fossilisation, and then write explanations about this process using the diagrams and their own knowledge.

Students complete a diagram of a geyser by writing the correct labels from a given selection. Students are also required to answer what causes the water to heat up.

From a given list students select the correct name for each of four labelled features on a weather map. They then identify a pattern to name a pressure reading number.

Students are provided with a weather map for the North Island of NZ and interpret this information to answer three short answer questions.

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

Students use diagrams of substances with labelled atoms to write their chemical formula.

For this task students use a diagram to explain the different seasons experienced in different hemispheres.

Students are provided with information about a genetic trait. They develop genotypes for the parents involved and then complete a punnet square for these.

Students are provided with a graph of lizard numbers on an island. They answer three questions about this graph.

For this NEMP task students use a key to name five small animals. They answer a question about the gas animals need to survive.

Students use a chart that identifies some birds' eggs to answer short response questions.

Task: identify micro-organisms. Assessment focus: using an identification key

This task is about describing the behaviour of light rays.

Students describe what makes two boats move and change direction.

Task: Use a diagram to match shadows to a time of day. Assessment focus: shadows.

Task: Identify the position of the sun and the time of day when the shadows shown is formed. Assessment focus: shadows.

Task: Answer questions about rowing. Assessment focus: levers.

Task: Answer questions about levers. Assessment focus: levers.

In this practical task students predict, and then measure the temperature of water from a range of familiar sources.

Task: Explain how to use the magnet to remove a drawing pin out of a glass of water without putting the magnet in the glass, touching the glass with hands, or spilling the water. Assessment focus: using knowledge of magnetism to solve a problem.