Year 8 Science: Change Assessment Task Notification

Vocabulary flashcards covering key syllabus terms, learning outcomes, and assessment requirements for the Year 8 Science Change unit.

SC4-CHG-01

A NESA outcome requiring students to explain how energy causes geological and chemical change.

SC4-WS-05

A NESA outcome focused on using a variety of ways to process and represent data.

SC4-WS-06

A NESA outcome focused on using data to identify trends, patterns, and relationships and draw conclusions.

MYP Criterion A

The 'Knowing and Understanding' assessment criterion (scored out of a maximum of 8) evaluating the ability to describe scientific knowledge, apply understanding to solve problems in familiar and unfamiliar situations, and analyse information to make scientifically supported judgments.

Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

Three distinct methods of energy transfer describing the different ways thermal and radiant energy can move through substances and space.

Potential Energy

Energy that is stored in systems, which can include thermal, elastic, chemical, and gravitational energy forms.

Kinetic Energy

The energy associated with the motion of an object or particles within a system.

Open System

A system where energy is able to be transferred in and out across its boundaries as well as moving within the system.

Closed System

A system where energy moves within the system without being freely transferred across its boundaries to the surroundings.

Law of Conservation of Energy

A fundamental scientific principle stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred in or out of systems and transformed from one form into another.

Chemical Change

A process resulting in new substances, characterised by observable indicators, initial and final mass changes, and energy changes that can be represented with word equations.

Physical Change

A change in the state or appearance of a substance that does not alter its chemical identity, distinguished using specific experimental indicators.

Convergent, Divergent, and Transform Plate Movements

The three distinct ways tectonic plates interact at their boundaries: moving toward one another (convergent), moving apart (divergent), or sliding past one another horizontally (transform).

Theory of Continental Drift

The geological theory supported by scientific evidence describing the historical and ongoing movement of Earth's tectonic plates and continents.

Epicenter

The point on Earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake, determined by analyzing seismic data.

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Natural phenomena resulting from tectonic activity that provide tangible evidence of ongoing geological change occurring in the Earth's crust and on its surface.