Good Science Victorian Curriculum Year 7

INDEX
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders ecological
knowledge 48–9
acceleration 132–3
adding forces 122, 123
aeration 82, 83
agriculture 46
impact on ecosystems
45, 46–7
air pollution 106
air resistance 126
airbags 135
algae 30
algal blooms 43, 45, 47
angiosperms 26, 27
animals, classification 24–5
annular solar eclipse 94
antibiotics 29
aqueous solutions 71
archaeans 31
Aristotle 96
arthropods, classes of 21
astronomers 98
Australian plant species,
fire need 48
axis 90
backbones 24, 25
bacteria 29, 30–1, 37
beneficial 43
classification 31
and diseases 29, 43
in ecosystems 42
balanced forces 123
moving object 121
stationary object 120–1
biodiversity 44, 45
loss of 45, 46, 48
biofuels 108
bioplastics 172
blackleg 47
blood separation 81
boiling 61
boiling point 61, 77, 79
Bolt, Usain 119
bonobos 17
booms 84, 85
branching keys 20
brush-tailed rock wallaby
22, 23
bryophytes 26, 27
Bunsen burner 5
canola crops 47
car crashes 134–5
carbon dioxide 84, 106
carnivores 36, 38, 40
centrifuge 81
changing states 60–1
chemicals, in ecosystems
45, 46–7
chlorine 82, 83
Chordata 24
chromatography 80
classification 18–19, 142
animals 24–5
bacteria 31
fungi 28–9
Linnaean system 22–3
Monera 30–1
plants 26–7
protists 30
classification keys 20–1, 143
climate change 106
coal 106, 115
coefficient of friction 128, 129
collecting and recording
data 8
collisions 134, 135
colloids 71, 154–5
colour separation 80, 162
community interactions in
ecosystems 40–1
competition 40
compressibility 54, 55, 149
concentrated solutions 71
condensation 60, 61, 79
condenser 79
cones 27
consumers 36, 38, 40, 42
contraction 58, 59
controlled variables 10
cooling 57, 61
Copernicus, Nicolaus 96
crops 46, 47
crude oil 77, 84
crumple zones 134–5
crystallisation 78, 160
cultivation 46
daily life, water as a solvent
72
data
collecting and recording 8
organising 9
types of 8
day and night 90, 164
lengths of 93
decanting 74, 75, 156–7
decomposers 28, 30, 37, 38,
42, 43, 148
decomposition 37
deforestation 44
deformation 134
density 62–3, 81, 153
dependent variable 10
dichotomous keys 20
dilute solutions 71
direction of force 124–5
diseases 29, 30, 43, 47
disinfection 82, 83
dissolve 70
distillation 79, 161
Earth 88
day and night 90, 164
eclipses 95
equinoxes and solstices 93
in geocentric model of
universe 96
and Moon 91
orbit 90
rotation on its axis 90–1
seasons 89, 92–3
tilt on its axis 92
Earth’s resources 104–9
conserving 110–11
mining 112–13
use and the environment
114–15
eclipses 94–5, 166–7
ecosystems 34, 38, 146
agricultural impacts 45,
46–7
biodiversity loss in 45, 46,
48
community interactions
40–1
energy paths in 38–9
fire management 48
food chains and food webs
38–9
human impacts 44–7
Indigenous knowledge/
management 48–9
microorganisms’ role in
42–3
pond 147
producers, consumers and
decomposers 36–7
electricity generation 104,
106, 108–9
energy
created by producers 36
in ecosystems 38–9
heat as a type of 56
obtained by consumers 38
environment
oil spills impact 84
and resource use 114–15
water as a solvent 73
environmental scientists 113
equinoxes 92, 93
ethical issues 114, 115
eukaryotes 30
euryhaline species 48, 49
evaporation 60, 61, 78, 159
evidence 96, 97
exoskeletons 25
expansion 58, 59, 151
experiments 10, 11
exploration 112
extremophiles 31
fair test 10
farming practices, and
ecosystems 45, 46–7
ferns 27
fertilisers 46
fieldwork 10, 11
filtrate 74
filtration 75, 82, 83, 156–7
finite resources 106
fire management of
ecosystems 48
flocculation 82
flowers 27
fluoride 82
food chains 36, 37, 38–9,
45, 46
food poisoning 43
food webs 38, 39, 40
human impacts on 44
footwear 134
forces
acting on a moving object
121
acting on stationary object
120–1, 132
adding or removing 122, 123
balanced 120–1, 123
on different objects 175
direction 124–5
friction 120, 123, 126–9
gravitational 120, 122, 123,
126, 129, 130–3
and inclined planes 137
interaction of 120
and levers 136, 182
magnitude (size) 125
predicting how they will
affect motion 123
and pulleys 137, 183
reducing the impact of
134–5, 180–1
unbalanced 122–3, 176
fossil fuels 104–5, 106
burning of 45
fractional distillation 76, 77
freezing 61
INDEX
187