SCIENCE
YOUR STEPS TO SUCCESS!!
Step 1: The Official Science Practice Test will be mailed to you. This is half the length of the actual GED test. Please complete the test within the time limits and mail back to us in the envelope provided. The instructors will correct your test and tell you your Standard Score.
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288-289 gives information about thi order. s test.
Click on the
following lessons. Start with Lesson One and go in
Each lesson
builds on the previous lessons.
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LIFE
SCIENCE
Lessons 1-9
Lesson
One
Cell Structures and Functions
Lesson Two
Cells and Energy
Lesson Three
Genetics
Lesson Four
Human Body Systems
Lesson Five
The Nervous System
Lesson Six
Evolution
Lesson Seven
Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Lesson Eight
Cycles in Ecosystems
Life Science Review
EARTH
AND SPACE SCIENCE
Lessons 9-13
Lesson Nine
The Structures of Earth
Lesson Ten
The Changing Earth
Lesson Eleven
Weather and Climate
Lesson Twelve
Earth's Resources
Lesson Thirteen
Earth in Space
Earth and Space Review
PHYSICAL
SCIENCE
Lessons 14-20
Lesson Fourteen
Matter
Lesson Fifteen
Structure of Atoms and Molecules
Lesson Sixteen
Chemical Reactions
Lesson Seventeen
Motion and Forces
Lesson Eighteen
Work and Energy
Lesson Nineteen
Electricity and Magnetism
Lesson Twenty
Waves
Physical Science Review
Unit Review
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Lesson One:
Assignment:
Read page 290. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. How do we use science on a personal level?
2. How do we use science on a larger level?
3. Life scientists are concerned with
___________________________________________.
4. You will have to read for understanding. You will
need to find the main ideas. If you have 3
paragraphs how many main ideas
will you have?
Read page 291. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. All cells have a ____________ cycle.
2. There are 5 phases of the life cycle. Tell what each
phase does:
1) Interphase:__________________________________________________
2)
Prophase:___________________________________________________
3)
Metaphase:__________________________________________________
4)
Anaphase:___________________________________________________
5) Telophase:___________________________________________________
3. What is mitosis?
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Read page 292. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Look at the diagram on Building Blood Vessels,
Cell by Cell. Write down each of the 4
steps.
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Read page 293. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Plant cells have a ________ wall surrounding the
cell membrane.
2. What are cells walls made of and what is their
purpose?
3. Where else do plant cells gain support from?
4. What are plastids?
5. Chloroplasts are one kind of plastid. What do
chloroplasts contain?
6. What is the purpose of chlorophyll?
7. Chromoplasts are another kind of plastid. What
do they contain?
8. Leucoplasts are the third type of plastid. What is
their purpose?
9. There is a TIP at the bottom right side on page 293.
What does the TIP say?
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Lesson Two:
Assignment:
Read page 294. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What do you do when you restate information?
2. What is the most common way to restate information?
3. When you restate information the facts remain the
same. What changes?
4. There is a TIP box on the left hand side. What does
the TIP say?
Read page 295. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Where do people and animals get their energy?
2. Where does glucose come from?
3. Glucose enters the cells of the body. This is where
it is broken down to release _________.
4. Cellular respiration is
____________________________________________________.
5. What happens during cellular respiration?
6. Does this incur during stages? Yes or no.
7. Which stage is the most energy released?
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Read page 296. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is metabolism?
2. The 2 metabolic processes are: Anabolism and
Catabolism. What do these reactions do?
1) Anabolism
____________________________________________________
2)
Catabolism____________________________________________________
3. When does the organism grow or gain weight?
4. When does the organism lose weight?
5. When the 2 processes are balanced the organism is
in
a
_____________________________.
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Lesson
Three:
Assignment:
Read page 297. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a fact?
2. What is an opinion?
3. Scientists have both fact and opinions. True or
false?
4. There are 2 TIPs on the left side of the page. What
do they say?
Read page 298. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are chromosomes composed of?
2. DNA is described as a double _______________ or
_______________.
3. This helix or sphere is made up of
______________________ and connected by _______
______________________.
4. What are the sidepieces made of? ____________ and
______________.
5. The rungs of the DNA ladder are composed of
_________________________________.
1)
2)
3)
4)
6. On the rungs:
adenine pairs with
________________________
Guanine pairs with
________________________
7. The sequence of bases along the ladder vary in
different ______________________.
8. The variations form the ______________ code.
9. This code controls the
_____________________________________.
10. Proteins determine _______________________________________.
11. Check out this website for more information on DNA and GENES.
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/
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Read page 299. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a gene?
2. What is a genotype?
3. What is a Punnett square?
4. A capital letter represents the ________________
gene for a trait.
5. A small letter represents the _________________ gene
for a trait.
6. If you have the genotype of Cc which shows up the
dominant C or the recessive c?
7. If you have the genotype cc what shows up? Dominant
or recessive?
8. If you have the genotype CC what shows up? Dominant
or recessive?
9. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
10. Go to this website. Read it and figure out the Mystery Bull!!
http://tepadmin.ucsd.edu/people/Tracee-Parsons/Final-genetics-project/Mystery-Bull.html
Draw out a Punnett Square for
each of the bulls. Figure out which bull is the father!!
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Lesson Four:
Assignment:
Read page 300. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are unstated assumptions?
2. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it
say?
Read page 301. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does FDA stand for?
2. How is Lyme disease spread?
3. Is Lyme disease a bacterial or viral infection?
4. How does the vaccine work?
5. Look at the map. What risk rating is ND?
6. Look at the map. What risk rating is CA?
7. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What is
the TIP?
Complete the questions on page 301. Check your answers on page 784. Email how many you had right.
Read page 302. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What system consists of glands that secrete
chemicals called hormones?
2. When hormones travel throughout the body do they
affect all the body or only parts of the
body?
3. Look at the table. Answer these questions from the
table:
1) What does the thyroid
gland do?
2) What hormone does the
Parathyroid gland create?
3) What decreases the
level of sugar in the blood?
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Lesson Five:
Assignment:
Read page 303. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is faulty logic?
2. What is oversimplification?
3. When does oversimplification often occur?
4. What is either or error?
5. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
Read page 304. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a simple reflex?
2. A simple reflex is _____________.
3. How does a simple reflex work?
4. Some human behavior is __________________.
5. Give an example of learned behavior.
6. You learn by:
1) Associating events
2) Repeat behavior that brings
rewards.
3) Avoid behavior that brings
punishment.
4) By observation
5) Experiences
6) Examples of others.
This learning involves
____________ pathways to the brain.
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Read page 305. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. The 3 main parts of the human brain are
____________, ___________, and ___________.
2. Which one is the largest part of the brain?
3. What is the cerebrum responsible for?
4. What does the cerebellum control?
5. The brain stem controls what?
6. Look at the diagram. What are the 4 lobes?
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Lesson Six:
Assignment:
Read page 306. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does summarize mean?
2. When you summarize a passage you look for the
____________ ideas.
3. How can you summarize a diagram or a chart?
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Read page 307. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a species?
2. What is speciation?
3. When may speciation occur?
4. The result of speciation is what?
5. What is adaptive radiation?
6. When does adaptive radiation occur?
7. This often happens on ______________ chains or
________________________.
8. Look at the diagram of the Honeycreepers. Notice the
different beaks.
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Read page 308. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What did Darwin formulate?
2. What are the 3 main groups that scientists have
divided organisms:
1)
2)
3)
3. What group do plants, animals, and fungi fit into?
4. Look at the diagram of the Evolution of Eukaryota.
Let the order of evolution for the New
Theory.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
5. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
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Lesson
Seven:
Assignment:
Read page 309. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a conclusion?
2. What are supporting details?
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
Read page 310. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does it mean when they say, "There is
at least one consumer for each plant and animal
that serves to check its
population growth"?
2. If there is no consumer willing to eat a new species
it will __________ rapidly.
3. What happened when rabbits were introduced to
Australia?
4. What is the best solution in preventing
overpopulation?
5. If overpopulation occurs how can it be controlled?
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Read page 311. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Which animal now inhabits almost all of North
America?
2. What animal was the coyotes natural enemy?
3. What can coyotes do in a pack?
4. Where do coyotes live?
5. Why are coyotes often safe from harm?
6. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
it say?
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Lesson
Eight:
Assignment:
Read page 312. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does applying ideas mean?
2. What does context mean?
3. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
the TIP say?
Read page 313. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What happens when fog rolls into the redwood
forest?
2. How much water can redwood tree collect on a foggy
night?
3. What happens to the water collected in deforested
areas?
4. Why do conservationists use the argument that fog
drip contributes to the supply of water?
5. Other people realize the role redwoods play in the
supply of water when their __________
dry up.
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Review: Life
Science:
Read page 314. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are the seven type of intelligences and
what is their description?
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Lesson Nine:
Assignment:
Read page 316. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is an implication?
2. How can you increase your ability to identify
implications?
3. What is a consequence?
4. What does imply mean?
5. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
the TIP say?
Read page 317. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. Seafloor spreading is caused by an upward or
downward movement?
2. This movement consists of __________________
__________________ _____________________.
3. This rock comes from the _____________ through the
________________.
4. What happens when this material comes to the
surface?
5. What pushes the sea floor on either side away from
the ridge in each direction?
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Read page 318. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. What is continental drift?
2. What was the name of the supercontinent?
3. How did Wegener propose that the continents moved?
(Note: he had 2 ideas).
4. New technologies in the 1950's and 60's permitted
detailed ______________ of the ocean floor.
5. How did Hess propose that the crust moved?
6. What theory provides the framework to the
understanding of most geologic processes.
7. Check out this website for more information on
Continental Drift:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/Contdrift.shtml
Read page 319. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. What four types of evidence support the idea of
continental drift
1)
______________________________________________________________
2)
______________________________________________________________
3)
______________________________________________________________
4)
______________________________________________________________
2. There is a TIP at the bottom left side. What does
the TIP say?
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Lesson Ten:
Assignment:
Read page 320. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a cause?
2. What is an effect?
3. What are cause and effect relationships?
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
Read page 321. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. There are 2 main ways of predicting earthquakes.
What are they?
1)
_____________________________________________________________________________________
2)
_____________________________________________________________________________________
2. What is GPS?
3. What are foreshocks?
4. What are mainshocks?
5. What are aftershocks?
6. Check out this website for more information on
earthquakes.
http://www.thirteen.org/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html
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Read 1st paragraph on page 322. Email the answers
to the following questions.
1. What is weathering?
2. Does weathering produce quick changes or gradual
changes to the landscape?
3. What is mechanical weathering?
4. What is chemical weathering?
5. Name some ways living organisms can cause
weathering.
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Read 2nd paragraph on page 322. Email the answers
to the following questions.
1. What is erosion?
2. Does erosion produce a rapid or a gradual change in
the land?
3. What is a load?
4. Most river erosion takes place at the
____________________ of the bend.
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Lesson
Eleven: Assignment:
Read page 323. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does assess mean?
2. What does adequacy mean?
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Read page 324. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. What is the difference between climate and
weather?
2. What are the 2 most important factors influencing
weather?
3. How does land influence climate?
4. How does the ocean affect climate?
5. Look at the map. What kind of climates does the map
key list?
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Read page 325. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. What is a hurricane?
2. How do the winds spiral?
3. The strong winds are accompanied by
________________________________________________
4. What is the mission of the Tropical Prediction
Center?
5. Scientists at the center collect data on tropical
storms from:
1)___________________
2)___________________
3) ___________________
4) ___________________
6. What are some of the worries of forecasters?
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Lesson
Twelve: Assignment:
Read page 326. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a value?
2. Values influence our actions as
_________________ and ________________________.
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Read page 327. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. What supports plant growth?
2. What does soil consist of?
1) ______________________
2) ______________________
3) ______________________
4) ______________________
3. About half the volume of good soil consists of
______________ and ___________.
4. The other half consists of space. Why is this space
important?
5. What are the horizons of soil?
6. The A Horizon is
_______________________________________________________________
7. The B Horizon is
_______________________________________________________________
8. The C Horizon is
_______________________________________________________________
9. Bedrock is
____________________________________________________________________
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Look at the chart on page 328. Email the answers
to the following questions.
1. List the minerals and what the major uses are.
Look at the circle graph on page 328. Email the
answers to the following questions.
1. What source is cited for the information?
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Lesson
Thirteen: Assignment:
Read page 329. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is an implication?
2. What does infer mean?
3. What is an inference?
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Read page 330. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. Look at the chart. How far is Uranus from the
Sun in Astronomical Units?
2. What is an astronomical unit?
Read the passage on page 330. Email the answers
to the following questions.
1. What do optical telescopes do?
2. What does the Hubble Space Telescope do?
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Read page 331. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. What was the Big Bang?
2. Write a conclusion to this passage.
3. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
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Review:
Earth and Space Science
Read page 332. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is moving air called?
2. How do wind generators work?
3. Which costs more: wind energy or fossil fuels?
4. There is a TIP on the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
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Lesson
Fourteen: Assignment:
Read page 334. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What do physical scientists study?
2. Physical science is divided into _____________ and
__________________.
3. What is chemistry?
4. What is physics?
5. What does compare mean?
6. What does contrast mean?
7. There is a TIP at the left side of the page. What
does the TIP say?
Read page 335. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Gases behave differently under what
conditions?
2. Why do gases behave differently?
3. Look at the diagram. In A: When the
temperature doubles why does the volume remain constant?
4.. Look at the diagram. In B: When the temperature remain
constant why is the volume reduce by half?
5. Look at the diagram. In C: Why does the pressure of
gas remain the same if both the temperature and the volume
doubles?
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Read page 336. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. The "property of matter" is referred
to as ____________________.
2. Define density.
3. When combined with other properties, density
___________________________________________.
4. Which are less dense--gases or liquids?
5. Which are less dense--liquids or solids?
6. Which are less dense--gases or solids?
7. Look at your bar graph. Which is least dense?
8. Look at your bar graph. Which is most dense?
9. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
the TIP say?
Read page 337. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Look at the chart. What method is: "Sorting
ingredients by the density of each"? What example does the book use?
2. Look at the chart. Describe "sorting" and
give the example.
3. Look at the chart. If you remove salt from seawater,
what is it called? How is salt removed from seawater?
4. Look at the chart. If we extract vanilla flavoring
from vanilla beans what method is being used?
5. Look at the chart. Describe magnetic separation and
give the example.
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Lesson
Fifteen: Assignment:
Read page 338. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
2. What is a STM?
3. What does a STM do?
4. What is an AFM?
5. What does an AFM do?
6. Complete the 2 questions at the bottom of the
reading.
Read page 339. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. All living things contain
______________________.
2. Organic compounds are
________________________________________________________________.
3. What does a hydrocarbon contain?
4. Are fossil fuels a hydrocarbon? Yes or No.
5. Hydrocarbons vary greatly in their ________________.
6. A "series" is part of a
_____________________.
7. What group are the most abundant hydrocarbons?
8. Look at the chart. How does the formula for
Methane differ from the formula for Ethane?
9 Name one that remains a gas at room
temperature.
10. Name one that remains a liquid at room temperature.
11. Name one that remains a solid at room temperature.
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Read page 340. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Can atoms bond with other atoms?
2. When they bond, what do they share?
3. How does an atom take on a charge?
4. What are charged atoms called?
5. An ionic bond is
________________________________________________________.
6. Do ionic bonds form between the same or different
elements?
7. If you look at a periodic table: Elements on the
same or opposite sides are most likely to join by ionic bonding?
8. If you look at a periodic table: Elements on the
same or opposite sides are most likely to join by sharing electrons.
9. What are covalent bonds?
10. A single covalent bond requires a pair of _______________
to be shared:
11. How does a molecule form?
12. Can covalent bonds form between atoms of the same or
between atoms of different of more than one element?
13. What is a covalent compound?
14. An interactive website with the periodic table. http://www.chemicalelements.com/
http://www.webelements.com/
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/
http://chemistry.about.com/library/blper5.htm
| 58 Ce |
59 Pr |
60 Nd |
61 Pm |
62 Sm |
63 Eu |
64 Gd |
65 Tb |
66 Dy |
67 Ho |
68 Er |
69 Tm |
70 Yb |
71 Lu |
| 90 Th |
91 Pa |
92 U |
93 Np |
94 Pu |
95 Am |
96 Cm |
97 Bk |
98 Cf |
99 Es |
100 Fm |
101 Md |
102 No |
103 Lr |
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Look at the passage on the right side of page 340.
Read page 340. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. How are compounds represented?
2. What do the numbers on the chemical formula tell
you?
3. What does it mean if there is no number by the
compound?
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Lesson
Sixteen: Assignment:
Read page 341. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Where do scientists publish their data and
conclusions?
2. When you read something factual, what should you
examine?
3. What does evaluate
mean?
4. When you evaluate something you should focus on
____________ and ____________.
5. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Read page 342. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. How can chemists control chemical reactions?
2. What breaks first?
3. Sometimes a chemist needs more ______________
control.
4. In the new technique-what are used to control a
chemical reaction?
5. Scientists have to vary ______________ of laser's
interactions so they can control which
bonds in the molecules break
apart first.
6. How do chemical reactions yield a mixture of
compounds?
7. Why is this a problem for drug
manufacturer's?
8. Right-handed and left-handed
molecules often have ____________ properties.
9 How does the left-handed
and right-handed molecules affect the drug thalidomide?
10. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page.
What does the TIP say?
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Read page 343. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are saturated molecules?
2. What are unsaturated
molecules?
3. What are saturated
hydrocarbons saturated with?
4. What is the difference between
ethane, C2H6, and ethene, C2H4?
5. What is an addition reaction?
6. Look at the chart. What does
the single line ____ represent?
7. Look at the chart. What does the double line ====
represent?
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Lesson
Seventeen: Assignment:
Read page 344. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
2. Complete the questions on this page.
Read page 345. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
2. There is a TIP at the bottom left. What does the TIP
say?
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Read page 346. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
2. Give an example of the First Law of Motion.
3. If a person is not wearing a seatbelt does he stop
when the car collides and stops or does he
his body keep moving? Is this
force of impact more or less than if he was wearing a seatbelt?
4. What does the airbag do?
5. Check out this website. You can design your own
roller coaster!
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
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Lesson
Eighteen: Assignment:
Read page 347. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
2. Visuals help people understand _____________,
_______________, and __________.
3. The visuals do not help you know how well something
works. You will need more ______.
4. Complete the questions on page 347.
Read page 348. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Hot molecules have more _____________ energy than
cold molecules.
2. Hot molecules move ___________ than cold molecules.
3. How is energy transferred in objects?
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Read page 349. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. The automobile creates some problems. Name the 2
listed.
2. How does the conventional automobile run? What does
gas do?
3. What is the main drawback of electric cars?
4. How long does it take to recharge the batteries?
5. What is a more practical design for an automobile?
6. Define a "series hybrid".
7. Define a "parallel hybrid".
8. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
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Email Address
Williston email:
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Lesson
Nineteen: Assignment:
Read page 350. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a cause?
2. What is an effect?
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
4. Complete the questions on page 350.
Read page 351. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What happens when the current flows through a
coil?
2. How does the flow of the current get reversed?
3. As long as the current continues to reverse the
shaft of the motor__________________.
4. Complete questions 1-3.
5. Look at the chart of question 4. Describe gravity.
6. What is a force that holds protons and neutrons
together in atomic nuclei?
7. Weak nuclear is a force that causes _________
_______ of atomic nuclei.
8. Describe electromagnetic.
9 Complete question 4.
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Read page 352. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Hans Oersted discovered that __________ and
____________ are related.
2. This is called _______________.
3. Andre-Marie Ampere proved
__________________________________.
4. Michael Faraday showed what?
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Lesson
Twenty: Assignment:
Read page 353. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is circular argument?
2. What is hasty generalization?
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
4. Complete the passage on the page.
Read page 354. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is electromagnetic radiation?
2. Radio waves are long or short?
3. Gamma waves are long or short?
4. What is an electromagnetic spectrum?
5. What waves can we see?
6. How fast do the electromagnetic waves travel?
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Read page 355. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What do cell phones give off?
2. Does scientific evidence prove that cell phones
contribute to cancer?
3. There is a TIP at the bottom. What does the TIP say?
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Review:
Physical Science:
Read page 356. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a conductor?
2. What are the best conductors?
3. What is an insulator?
4. What are insulators made of?
5. Complete the questions 1-3
6. How many paths are there in a series circuit?
7. What happens when the path is broken?
8. How many paths are in a parallel circuit?
9 What happens when a path is broken?
10. Complete questions 4-5
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Read page 357. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a colloid?
2. Give examples of solid particles in: gas, liquid,
and solid.
3. How do colloids differ from solutions?
4. Complete questions 6-8.
5. How can the freezing point of water be lowered?
6. How does the solute work?
7. Complete question 9.
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Unit Review
Read page 358. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. How does acid rain form?
2. Complete questions 1-3.
3. What do earthworms do?
4. What is released into the environment?
5. Complete questions 4.
6. How does a single-pulley system work?
7. Complete questions 5-8.
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Read page 360. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is the major organ of the circulatory
system?
2. What does the heart do?
3. What is a septum?
4. What are the 2 chambers?
5. Which arteries carries blood to the lungs?
6. What does the blood pick up in the lungs?
7. What is an aorta?
8. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
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Read page 361. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is one of the major agents of erosion in
the desert?
2. How does sand erode rocks?
3. Complete questions 12-13.
4. Look at the map of California. This map explains
what?
5. Complete questions 14-15.
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Read page 362. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a quarks?
2. What are bosons?
3. What are particle accelerators?
4. How do particle accelerators work?
5. Particle accelerators help scientists ________ or
________ the latest theories about
_____________________________.
6. Illinois has the _______________________
accelerator.
7. Switzerland has the _____________________
accelerator.
8. Both places want to be the first to prove there is a
_____________ boson.
9. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
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Read page 363. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What kind of organisms are bacteria?
2. Do bacteria cells have a nucleus?
3. Do bacterial cells have cell walls?
4. Complete question 19 on page 363.
5. When do reproductive cells
have half the number of chromosomes found in nonreproductive
cells?
6. Describe the chromosomes in cancer cells.
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Email Address
Williston email:
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Next Step:
1. After you have completed the Unit Review you are
ready to try the simulated test found on
page 689. Follow the Simulated
Test link.
2. You may also email us for the second Official
Practice Test.
3. Please contact us so we can
help you fill out the demographics sheet.
4. If you score 450 or
higher on your Official Practice Test, you are ready to schedule the GED
test.
Call the GED Testing Center for an
appointment.
When you have completed the Science section email so you
can get the number for your next GED subject.
The posttest is found on page 669-687. The Answer Sheet is found on page 918. You have 80 minutes to answer 50 questions. Do not spend too much time on any one question. Make sure you fill in all the answers. If you are running out of time and have some questions unanswered fill in the unanswered questions. If you do not fill them in, they will be counted wrong. You may just guess a right answer.
The answers and explanations are found on page 869-874.
The Performance Analysis Chart for Science is found on page 688. Please email the results of your analysis chart or email and request that the form be emailed to you to fill in and send back.
Official Half Test for Science
If you would like to take the PB Version of the Official Practice Test for Science email us at
Email Address
Williston email:
adultlearningcenter@hotmail.com
we will send it to you. Please mail the test and answer key back and your results will be emailed to you. If you score at least 450 you are ready to schedule your GED Science test.
Please call Diane at 774-4228 or Jan at 774-4594 to schedule your test. If this is your first test you need to bring a photo ID, $15.00, and your demographics sheet. Any questions about the demographics, please call the Williston Adult Learning Center at 572-5886.
If you are from Pembina or Walsh counties you will need to bring $15.00, photo ID, and your demographics sheet. Call the Grafton Adult Learning Center at 352-3705 ext. 424 for more information.
If you are from Minot or Ward county please call Minot Adult Learning Center at 857-4488 for more information and to make an appointment to test.
WEB Sites
Websites for GED Science and sample tests :
http://www.gedpractice.com/
Great site. Will need to register the first time.
http://www.4tests.com/exams/examdetail.asp?eid=38
Has many pop-ups, but good GED practice.
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