Focus Areas of Individual Assessments - Summary Document

Earth & Space Science

Answer Key for Grade 7 Earth & Space Science Assessments

Test #1: Focus - Explain bio geo chemical cycles that move materials between the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere

Test #2: Focus - Describe the water cycel and explain the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and hydrosphere

Test #3: Focus - Describe the water cycel and explain the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and hydrosphere

Test #4: Focus - Make simple weather predictions based on cloud types associated with frontal systems

Test #5: Focus - Determine how weather measurment and observations are used to produce weather ways

Test #6: Focus - Read a weather map to interpret national weather

Test #7: Focus - Describe the weather cycle and weather related phenomena like hurricanes and tornadoes

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Life Science

Answer Key for Grade 7 Life Science Assessments

Test #1: Focus - Investigate the variety of body plans and structures found in multi-cellular organisms

Test #2: Focus - Investigate how organisms interact with each other through symbolic relationships

Test #3: Focus - Explain how variations in structure, physiology, and behavior allow organisms to survive in a particular environment

Test #4: Focus - Explain how organisms depend on adequate biotic and abiotic resources

Test #5: Focus - Summarize how human activity affects the transfer of energy in Earth's ecosystem

Test #6: Focus - Explain the ways that natural occurrences and human activity affect the transfer of energy in Earth's ecosystem

Test #7: Focus - Summarize ways that human activity affects the transfer of energy in Earth's ecosystem

Test #8: Focus - Explain that photosynthetic cells convert solar energy into chemical energy used to carry on life functions

Test #9: Focus - Explain the relationship between producers and consumers

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Physical Science

Answer Key for Grade 7 Physical Science Assessments

Test #1: Focus - Investigate how matter can change forms but the total amount of matter remains constant

Test #2: Focus - Describe how an object can have potential energy due to its position and kinetic energy due to its motion

Test #3: Focus - Identify different forms of energy

Test #4: Focus - Explain how energy can change forms but the total amount of energy remains constant

Test #5: Trace energy transformation in a simple closed system

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Scientific Inquiry

Answer Key for Grade 7 Scientific Inquiry Assessments

Test #1: Focus - Explain that variables and controls can affect the results of investigations

Test #2: Focus - Identify simple independent and dependent variables

Test #3: Focus - Identify questions that connect to science concepts and can be answered through scientific investigation

Test #4: Focus - Choose appropriate tools to complete investigations

Test #5: Focus - Analyze alternative scientific explanations and recognize that there may be more than one good way to interpret a set of data

Test #6: Focus - Use graphs, tables and charts to study physical phenomena and infer mathematical relationships between variables

Test #7: Focus - Use tools, graphs, and charts to infer mathematical relationships between variables

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Scientific Ways of Knowing

Answer Key for Grade 7 Scientific Ways of Knowing Assessmets

Test #1: Focus - Describe how repetition of an experiment may reduce bias.  Describe how science required  human abilities and qualities that are helpful in everyday life

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