Year 8 Science

Follow food through the alimentary canal and say what each part does, tell breathing from respiration, and match an animal to the way it takes in oxygen.

Place adolescence among the stages of life, name the changes it brings and what drives them, and say what looks after health at this age.

Say what photosynthesis needs and what it gives back, read the experiment that proves each ingredient, and name the tubes that carry water up and food out.

Sort everyday substances as acidic, basic or neutral, read what each natural indicator is telling you, and use neutralisation to explain an ant bite and a sour field.

Decide whether a change has made a new substance or merely rearranged an old one, say what combustion needs, and name the slow changes that turn rock into soil.

Tell metals from non-metals by malleability, ductility, sonority and conduction, say what rusting and corrosion need, and give the nature of a metal oxide and a non-metal oxide.

Tell conduction, convection and radiation apart by what the particles do, explain land and sea breezes, and follow water from the sea to an aquifer.

Say how old clocks kept time, find a pendulum's time period from a count of oscillations, and convert between the second, the minute and the hour.

Work out speed, distance or time from the other two, choose between m/s and km/h, and tell uniform linear motion from non-uniform.

Tell luminous objects from non-luminous, use the straight-line rule to explain shadows, and give the four properties of an image in a plane mirror.

Name the parts of a torch circuit and what each does, read a circuit diagram's symbols, tell a conductor from an insulator, and say when a lamp glows and when it does not.

Tell rotation from revolution, explain day, night and the seasons from the Earth's turning and its tilt, and say what lines up during each kind of eclipse.