This worksheet is part of an assessment for the Year 5 ACARA Earth and Space science curriculum unit called Soil, Rocks and Minerals. You will also need access to the Surface Change Quiz Presentation to complete the multiple choice component of the quiz.
To mark the multiple choice questions, cut off the strip of the key and punch out all of the coloured holes. You should then be able to overlay this onto the students’ responses to mark it quickly and easily.
Describe how weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition cause slow or rapid change to Earth’s surface
Investigate how scientific knowledge is used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions
Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity
Scientific knowledge is used to solve problems and inform personal and community decisions
Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity
Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives
Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations
Investigates regular changes caused by interactions between the Earth and the Sun, and changes to the Earth’s surface
Plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions
Plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
Examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things
Explains how food and fibre are produced sustainably in managed environments for health and nutrition