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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: Investigate the length of shadows in relationship to the sun's position. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.

Task: Complete a diagram of the length and position of a shadow of a flagpole. Assessment focus: shadows in relation to sun's position.

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

Students are provided with a star map showing the path of comet Haley-Bopp 1997. Students use this map to answer three questions.

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

Using a stimulus diagram showing plate tectonics, students explain why the following geological features or events; earthquakes, mid-ocean ridge, ocean trench, and volcanoes are present.

Students are provided with a diagram showing layers of rock and three possible results of changes that could occur. Words and phrases are provided to help students answer several short answer questions about the possible cause of the changes.

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 are provided with a geological time scale which they use to interpret and answer a number of questions.

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

On a diagram students indicate how a cliff face might look different in 100 years from now, and explain the probable cause of this.

Students interpret a weather map to answer three multiple-choice questions on information it contains.

Students are provided with a graph showing the average rainfall and temperatures for Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Perth. Students interpret this graph to answer a number of questions.

Students are provided with a map of NZ showing the average annual rainfall in different areas. Students interpret this information to answer three short answer questions, and then construct a bar graph that shows the rainfall for nine North Island locations.

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

Students draw up a table to illustrate results of how indicators change when placed into four different liquids.

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

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

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

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

Students draw a graph from some information they are given about the heating of meths in a water bath. Students then explain in terms of particles what is happening for the sloping section and the flat section of the graph.