Utah
Science Core Curriculum
Eighth
Integrated Science
2003
TEST ITEM POOL
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STANDARD I: Students will understand the nature of changes in matter.
Objective 1: Describe the chemical and physical properties of various substances.
Objective
4: Identify
the observable features of chemical reactions.
STANDARD
II: Students will understand that
energy from sunlight is changed to chemical energy in plants, transfers between
living organisms, and that changing the environment may alter the amount of
energy provided to living organisms.
Objective 1: Compare
ways that plants and animals obtain and use energy.
Objective 2:
Generalize the dependent relationships between organisms.
Objective
3:
Analyze human influence on the capacity of an environment to sustain
living things.
STANDARD III: Students will understand the processes
of rock and fossil formation.
Objective 1:
Compare rocks and minerals and describe how they are related.
Objective
2:
Describe the nature of the changes that rocks undergo over long periods
of time.
Objective 3:
Describe how rock and fossil evidence is used to infer EarthÕs history.
Objective 4:
Compare rapid and gradual changes to EarthÕs surface.
STANDARD IV: Students will understand the relationships among energy, force, and motion.
Objective 1: Investigate
the transfer of energy through various materials.
Objective 2:
Examine the force exerted on objects by gravity.
Objective
3:
Investigate the application of forces that act on objects, and the
resulting motion.
Objective
4:
Analyze various forms of energy and how living organisms sense and
respond to energy.