Good Science Victorian Curriculum Year 7

photosynthesis 30, 31, 36,
42, 109
physical separation
techniques 74–5, 78, 80–5
planets 90
plankton 30
plants
classification 26–7
comparison with fungi 28
competition for
resources 40
nutrient intake 37
photosynthesis 109
as producers 36, 37
seeds, fruits and flowers 27
vascular tissue 26
plasma 53
plastic waste 103
plastics 45
pond ecosystem 147
power stations 106, 109
predators 40
prediction 8, 9, 11
presenting data 9
prey 40
primary consumer 36, 38, 39
primary data 8
producers 36, 38, 40, 42,
43, 44
prokaryotes 30, 31
protists 30, 42, 43
Ptolemy, Claudius 96
pulleys 137, 183
pure substances 68
qualitative data 8
quantitative data 8
quaternary consumer 38, 39
ramps 129, 137
recycling 110, 111
rehabilitation 113
reliability 10
removing forces 122
renewable resources 104,
108–9
research 10, 11
residue 74, 75
resource use
benefits 114
different opinions about 115
and the environment 114–15
ethical issues 115
resources 104
finite 106
made 104, 105
mineral 112–13
natural 94–5
non-renewable 104–5,
106–7, 110–11
reducing use 110
renewable 104, 108–9
sustainable use 173
used in the classroom 169
revolving 90, 91
risk 4, 5
rocks 107
rotation of the Earth 90–1
rubber 128
safety flame 5
safety practices 4
salt, extraction from
seawater 78
sawfish populations,
Indigenous management
49
scientific name 23
screening 82, 83
seasons 89, 92–3, 165
secondary consumer 36, 38,
39
secondary data 8
sedimentation 82
sediments 74, 106
separation from liquids 75
seeds 27
selective breeding 47
separating funnel 81, 163
separation techniques
69, 74–86, 156–63
settling 83
sewage treatment 83
sewerage system 83
shoes 134
simple machines 136–7
size of force 125
soil erosion 170
solar eclipse 94, 166–7
solar energy 108, 109
solar system
models 96–7
Sun as centre of 90, 97
solids 70
density 62
evaporation and
crystallisation out of
liquids 78
expansion and contraction
58
melting to liquids 60
particles in 54, 56, 60
solstices 92, 93
soluble substances 70
solutes 70, 71
solutions 71, 154–5
solvents 70, 71
water as 72–3
sorting things into groups
18–19
species 22
two-word name 23
spores 26, 27
states of matter 52, 53, 54–5,
58–61, 70
static friction 126, 127
stationary objects 120–1, 132
substances, heat energy in
56, 57
summer solstice 93
Sun 88
as centre of our solar
system 90, 97
eclipses 94, 95
in heliocentric model of the
universe 97
for solar energy 108, 109
suspensions 71, 154–5
sustainability 48
sustainability game 173
sustainable land
management 48–9
sustainable resource use 110
symbionts 28
symbiosis 40, 41
tables 9
taxonomy 18, 19
telescopes 168
temperature 56, 57
tertiary consumer 38, 39
thermal expansion 58, 59
tilt of the Earth’s axis 92
total solar eclipse 94
tracheophytes 26, 27
trees 105, 108
Tyndall effect 154
umbra 94, 95
unbalanced forces 122–3, 176
unbalanced gravitational
forces 132–3
unicellular organisms 42
universal solvent 72
universe
geocentric model 96
heliocentric model 97
true size of 98
uranium 106
urbanisation 44
validity 10
variables 10–11
vascular tissue 26
vertebrates 24, 144
volume 54, 55, 62
waste 67, 103
water 54
changes of state 60
chemical treatment 82
in daily life 72
for electricity generation
109
in the environment 73
in industry 73
as a solvent 70, 72–3
water purification 82
weight 130, 131
and gravity 131
wind power 104, 109
windmill to lift a weight 171
winter solstice 93
writing investigation reports
12–13
yeasts 28–9, 148
INDEX
189