Planet Earth resources

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

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 use a diagram of a cutting showing exposed rock layers to answer questions about their formation, age, and geological history.

Task: Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.

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

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 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.

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

For this task students are provided with three pie graphs on water. Students are required to interpret these to answer four short answer questions.

Task: Match the parts of a water cycle to the parts represented in a model of the water cycle and compare how they are the same and different. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.

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.

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

Students answer questions about how a road moves after an earthquake.

Students are asked to explain why the Southern Cross appears not to be in the same place in the night sky that it was a few months previously.

Students interpret information about unnamed planets and their length of year to answer questions about their distance from the Sun and the order of these planets from the Sun.

Task: Label a diagram. Assessment focus: relative positions of Earth and Sun for each season.

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.

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

For this task students are provided with some weather information that includes the UV index. Students interpret this information to answer three short answer questions.

Students are asked four short questions that explore their understanding of the Earth's rotation, Earth's revolution, and seasons.

Students answer three questions by interpreting a weather map and other forecast information.

Students use a diagram to answer questions about water reserves, the main difference between lake and sea water, and to explain how water in the ocean could end up falling as snow in the mountains.

Students are provided with a map that has numbers on it representing various ash fall depths from a volcanic eruption. Students draw lines to link the similar numbers and answer questions about these. They also explain three major problems an ash fall could cause.