Success in Science 2

The Success in Science books provide a comprehensive coverage of the New South Wales Board of Studies Science Years 7-10 Syllabus . The series as a whole will address all of the core outcomes of that syllabus. However, science programs are broadly similar across the world. The series should also be useful beyond New South Wales.

Success in Science 2 deals with a number of the outcomes specified for Stage 4 in the syllabus and would be used in Years 7 or 8.

We wrote the Success in Science series for 'out of class' learning.

Table of Contents

• Preamble
• 1 Introduction
  
  • How to use this book
  • Syllabus programs, lessons, tests, reports
• 2 The nature of science
• 3 The content of science
• 4 Writing in science
  
  • Writing answers to science questions
  • Questions that ask you to identify, outline or describe
  • Questions that ask you to discuss or assess
  • Questions that ask you to distinguish, contrast or compare
  • Questions that ask you to explain
• 5 Energy and forces
  
  • Conservation of energy
  • Models of energy
  • Potential and kinetic energy
  • Energy transfers and transformations
  • Where has the energy gone to?
  • Force
  • Electricity
  • Sound
  • Light
  • Breaking light with prisms
  • Heat
  • Friction
  • Electrostatics
  • Magnetism
  • Electromagnets
  • Gravity
• 6 Dynamic Earth
  
  • The Solar System
  • Astronomical units
  • Models of the Solar System
  • Night and Day
  • Seasons
  • Solstices and equinoxes
  • Components of the Universe
  • The Hubble Space Telescope
  • Our planet
  • Atmosphere
  • Warming air
  • Hydrosphere
  • Sun, Moon and hydrosphere
  • Minerals in the Lithosphere
  • Weathering and erosion
  • Formation of rock types
• 7 Natural resources
  
  • Where do we get what we need?
  • Fossil fuels
  • Renewable energy
• 8 Technology
  
  • The use of tools
  • How do simple machines work?
  • Appropriate materials
  • Solving the energy problem
  • Technology transforms energy
  • Smaller and smaller machines
• 9 Answers
• 10 Index and Glossary