Home Learning Booklet Year 7
Rotation 4

This booklet contains your science home learning tasks for the three topics in this rotation.

Each topic has four home learning tasks.

Fill in your personal data section.

Your
Name / Tutor
Group
Teacher
Name / Science
Group

Use these grids to record your performance and track positive progress.

Task / Environment & Feeding Relationships / / /
1 / Learning List
2 / Using Your learning
3 / Assessment Focus
4 / Reviewing Work
Task / More Chemical Reactions / / /
1 / Learning List
2 / Using Your learning
3 / Assessment Focus
4 / Reviewing Work
Task / Space / / /
1 / Learning List
2 / Using Your learning
3 / Assessment Focus
4 / Reviewing Work

Year 7 Learning List: Environment & feeding relationships

Key word / Sounds like / Meaning
Producer / Prod yoo ser / Organisms that use light energy (green plants) or chemical energy (some bacteria) to sustain life and provide food for consumers
Consumer / Kon soo mer / An organism that feeds on dead or living organic material
Food chain / Foo-d chayne / A community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another
Food web / Foo-d web / A system of interdependent food chains
Predator / Predd ah tore / An animal that hunts and kills another animal for food
Prey / Pray / An animal that is hunted and killed by another animal for food
Habitat / Hab it att / The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
Migration / My gray shun / Seasonal movement of animals from one region to another
Overwintering / Ow ver win ter ing / The process of survival during the winter months
Dormant / Door man-t / In a condition of biological rest
Hibernation / High burn ay shun / When an animal passes the cold seasons in deep sleep
Temperature / Tem per ah chure / A measure of heat energy
Sample size / Sam pull sighs / The number of subjects in a study
Reliable data / Ree lie ah bull day tah / Facts that can be trusted

Adaptation on ZARG

The pictures here are of two animals which live on the planet Zarg, a glob and a bimble. Look carefully at them.

Look at all their different features.

Level / You should be able to…
3 / Identify which animal is a predator, prey, carnivore, herbivore.
Identify 3 simple features and say simply how the creature may use them to survive.
4 / Identify some adaptations on both predator and prey and suggest functions.
Describe how the population of the bimble changes when more prey are introduced.
5 / Identify adaptations on both predator and prey and link these to the organisms role.
Explain how the changes in the prey population affect the predator population.
Give clear reasons why the populations change.
6 / Use detailed scientific knowledge and understanding to explain predator/ prey cycles.
Use the idea of “population change” to explain your ideas.
Explain how seasonal changes may affect the sizes of predator / prey populations.
Explain how predator adaptations may help survival in times of low prey populations.
7 / Use a broad knowledge and understanding of predator/ prey cycles.
Consider the short term and long term effects of the cycles.
May have used quantitative model to explain the changes in population size.

Adaptation on ZARG Worksheet.

A Glob is a:

A Bimble is a:

Year 7 APP Homework – British Mammal Project

Year 7 Learning List: Chemical reactions

Key word / Sounds like / Meaning
Reactant / Ree ak tant / A substance that takes part in and undergoes change during a reaction
Product / Prod duck-t / A substance that is produced by a chemical reaction
Word equation / Werd eek way shun / A statement which represents the reactants and products of a chemical reaction and uses only words
Hydrogen / High drow jen / A colourless, odourless, highly flammable gas. The chemical element with atomic number 1
Oxygen / Ok see jen / A colouless, odourless reactive gas, atomic number 8
Magnesium / Mag nee see um / A light, silver-white, flammable metal, atomic number 12
Carbon dioxide / Kar bonn die oks side / A colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon compounds in air and by respiration. Formula = CO2
Methane / Mee thay-n / A colourless, odourless flammable gas that is the main constituent of natural gas. Consists of one carbon and four hydrogen atoms. Formula = CH4
Calcium carbonate / Kal see um kar bonn ate / A white, insoluble solid occurring naturally as chalk, limestone and marble. Formula = CaCo3
Combustion / Kom bus chun / The process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
Precipitate / Pree sip it ate / A fine suspension of solid particles in a solution

Year 7 Learning List: Space

Key word / Sounds like / Meaning
Planet / Plann ett / A very large body in orbit around a star, eg. Mars
Moon / Moooo-n / A natural satellite of a planet
Orbit / Or bit / A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object
Celestial / See less tee al / In space
Satellite / Sat ell light / Any celestial body orbiting a planet or star
Eclipse / Eek lips / An event during which one body passes in front of another, so that the light from further the body is blocked.
Asteroid / Ass terr oyd / A naturally occurring solid object, smaller than a planet or moon, orbiting a star
Luminous / Loo minn uss / Emitting light, producing its own light
Night / Nite / The period on a planet’s surface when it is facing away from its sun
Star / Star / A celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions
Galaxy / Gal aks see / A massive system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction
Universe / You nee vurse / All existing matter and space
Season / See sun / Each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun
Day / Day / A single rotation of a planet in relation to its sun
Year / Yeer / The time taken by a planet to make one complete orbit around its sun

Intergalactic Tourism

“Greetings Earthlings !

I am Nimuscarbontrumadig but you may call me Alan.

I am head of Thomson Intergalactic Tours.

We are currently planning a guide for your galaxy

and we would like your advice about the sites

to visit in your Solar system.”

Keywords

level 3 / I know that the sun gives out light
I know that there are other planets in the Solar system.
level 4 / I know how long the Moon takes to orbit the Earth and the Earth to orbit the Sun.
I know that the orbit of each planet depends on its distance form the sun.
level 5 / I know there are 9 planets in the Solar System and that they have different conditions.
I know the sun is a star and how this is different to a planet.
level 6 / I can relate the conditions of a planet to its distance form the sun.