G4 Science On Earth and Beyond

Match the following types of Scientific Enquiry

• Research

• Collecting data to see if there is a link between things

• Observing over times

• Watching something change over hours, days or weeks

• Fair testing

• Grouping things by their features

• Pattern seeking

• Changing one thing to see what happens, while keeping everything else the same

• Identifying and classifying

• Finding answers from books, videos or the internet

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Label the Solar System

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Neptune

Venus

Jupiter

Asteroid Belt

Mars

Saturn

Uranus

Mercury

Earth

Sun

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Label the Solar System

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Asteroid Belt

The biggest

The fastest

The only planet with large amount of wat

Has rings

The hottest

The star

The windiest

The red planet

Spins on its side

Match the following

• Comets

• A huge hot ball of gas that makes its own light and heat.

• Asteroid

• A small, rocky object that orbit the sun

• Star

• A ball of ice and dust that orbits the sun. It develops a tail when it gets close to the sun.

Match the following types of Scientific Enquiry Example

• Pattern seeking

• Sorting rocks into smooth, rough, shiny or dull groups

• Fair testing

• Which paper airplane flies the farthest?

• Research

• Do taller students have bigger feet?

• Identifying and classifying

• We read an article to find out what astronouts eat in space

• Observing over times

• Measuring the shadow of a stick in the morning, noon and afternoon

Identify the layers of the Earth shown in the diagram.

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b

c

d

Mantle

Outer Core

Crust

Inner Core

Match the following

• The crust

• The center of the Earth. The hottest layer.

• The mantle

• Earht's surface

• Inner core

• It is made up of metals, iron and nickels

• Outer core

• The layer beneath the crust.

Match the following natural disaster and its caused.

• Earthquakes

• The sudden release of movement of Earth's tectonic plates

• Tsunami

• There is a break in the earth's crust.

• Volcano

• The primary cause is earthquake but sometimes it can be landslides, eruptions and meteorite impacts

What is at the center of our Solar System?

• Earth

• The Moon

• The Sun

• Jupiter

Which of these is a huge, hot ball of gas that makes its own light and heat?

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Planet

• Star