3 free earth & space sciences resources for Year 8: 2 worksheets, 1 study guide. Answers included.
Earth's surface, weather, the water cycle, the solar system and space. Year 8 extends algebra to expanding brackets and two-step equations, adds percentages increase and decrease, ratio and rates, index laws and congruence.
Students will practise: describing how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks form; explaining how cooling rate affects crystal size in igneous rocks; identifying common examples of each rock type; describing the processes that link rocks in the rock cycle; using rock features as evidence of how a rock formed; describing how fossils form; identifying types of fossils; applying the law of superposition and cross-cutting relationships.
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Students describe how fossils form in sedimentary rock and identify body fossils, trace fossils, moulds and casts. They use the law of…
Students describe evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, runoff and infiltration in the water cycle and explain how…
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A study guide to the three types of rock. It explains how igneous rocks form from cooling magma and lava and why crystal size depends on…
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Earth's surface, weather, the water cycle, the solar system and space. At Year 8, our resources focus on: describing how igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks form; explaining how cooling rate affects crystal size in igneous rocks; identifying common examples of each rock type; describing the processes that link rocks in the rock cycle.
Read the study guide first, then start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet. Finish with the topic test.
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