Look at each statement underneath the Science topic and decide how confident you feel - this should help you focus on areas you need to revise.
Can you?
Earth in Space
- Describe the changes that happen during a day/year in terms of rotation of the Earth
- Explain why the sun appears at different points in the sky during a year
- State the Sun, Moon & Earth are spherical in shape
- Describe the rotation of Earth Sun & Moon around each other
- Explain, using a model, why shadows change during a day/year
- State that the moon appears to change over 28 day period
- Describe the changes to the moon over a 28 day period
Explain why the moon looks different over a 28 day period
How we see things
- State what luminous means.
- Describe how shadows are formed.
- State the difference between opaque, translucent and transparent.
- Give a simple explanation of how light travels.
- State what reflection is.
- Accurately explain reflection using diagrams.
- State the reason that a shadow is formed.
- Accurately draw a diagram to show how a shadow is formed.
- Explain why shadows change during the day.
- State how we see light.
- Describe seeing in terms of light rays entering the eye.
- Explain how we detect reflected light using a diagram.
Sound
- State some ways of making sounds.
- Describe sound in terms of vibrating objects.
- Explain the term pitch in terms of sound.
- State that sound can be reflected.
- Describe some simple experiments that show solids, liquids and gases carry sound waves.
- Explain sound waves using a suitable model.
- Explain the difference between pitch & loudness.
- Describe ways of changing the pitch of sounds an object makes.
- Use a wave diagram to explain the terms pitch and longitudinal waves.
- State how a sound changes as it gets further away.
- Describe ways of changing the loudness of a sound
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