STUDY FOR YOUR VOCABULARY TEST

Vocabulary Words – NEW WORDS! Bereft Adjective Deprived, robbed, or devoid, as of life, hope, or happiness Bilk Verb To cheat or swindle; defraud; to manage to get away from;

Sentence Examples Bereft Bilk The demolition of a rundown movie theatre left local youth bereft of a place to hang out. The freezing winter weather left the forest trees bereft of leaves. Bilk Joey tried to bilk by looking at Sara’s vocabulary test. The fugitive bilked the gas station of $27.

Agenda Vocabulary Test – (15 minutes) Figure Interpretation Packet – (45 minutes)

Breaking Down Science SCIENCE TEST Time allowed 35 minutes Number of passages 7 Data Representation 3 Research Summary 3 Conflicting Viewpoints 1 Number of questions 40 Data Representation 15 Research Summary 18 Conflicting Viewpoints 7 Scoring 1-36

Breaking Down – SmartPoints Point Value Science 12 Figure Interpretation 11 Pattern Analysis 7 Scientific Method 6 Scientific Reasoning 36 Total 1 Writer’s View

What is on the Science Test? 3 Data Representation passages, each with 5 questions (data) 3 Research Summary passages, each with 6 questions (several experiments) 1 Conflict Viewpoints passage, with 7 questions (two or more with differing passages)

What type of questions will their be on the Science test? Figure Interpretation Find information Pattern Analysis Find trends Scientific Method Plan experiments Scientific Reasoning Make conclusions

What is on the Science Test? You will read 7 Passages about… Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Space Sciences, and Physics Each passage with contain 5-7 questions.

What does the Science exam determine? This portion of the ACT tests how well you can: Understand a description of an experiment Interpret graphs, charts, and other diagrams Apply the scientific method

What does the Science exam NOT test?! The Science exam does NOT test your knowledge of: Biology facts Chemistry facts Physics facts Any other branch of science

Data in ACT Science takes many forms… Diagrams One conflicting viewpoints passage Table Graphs

How to succeed on Date Representation and Research Summary passages: Read the passage taking BRIEF notes as you go. Examine each figure, marking key information Attack the questions, identifying where in the passage you’ll find the answer.

The Scientific Method For the ACT, you can think of the scientific method as having three parts: The Purpose The Method The Results

The Purpose The purpose of an experiment is “the big idea” What are researchers testing? What are they trying to find out? - Applies to Scientific Method & Scientific Reasoning Questions

“how the researchers set up the experiment” The Method The method is “how the researchers set up the experiment” What have they kept constant? What have they changed? -Applies to Scientific Method questions

“what the researchers find out” The Result The results are “what the researchers find out” They are usually presented in the form of a graph or chart. -Applies to Figure Interpretation & Pattern Analysis questions

By identifying the elements of the scientific method during practice, you will train yourself to identify them automatically on test day!

Figure Interpretation Figure Interpretation questions consist of 1/3 of the questions on the ACT Science Test.

Figure Interpretation In all figure interpretation questions you need to know: What does the figure show? What are the units of measurement? Where is the information I need?

Figure 1 – Practice? What does Figure 1 Show? Figure 1 shows how the acceleration due to gravity (g) increases with latitude What are the units of measurement? Latitude is measurement in degrees; g in meters per second squared.

Table 1 – Practice? What does Table 1 show? Table 1 shows the gravitational acceleration for different elevations. What are the units of measurement? Elevation is measured in meters, and g in meters per second squared.

Passage II – Your Turn Read Passage II and on a blank sheet of paper: Identify what Table 1 and Figure 1 both represents and the unit of measurement used. Identify the Purpose, Method, and Result for the experiment in Passage II. Answer questions 1 – 3 on the following page.

Passage II –Answers Table 1: Figure 1: Experiment: The table shows what the Tornio scale means. Units of measurement are Torinos. Figure 1: The figure shows a graph of the results of both experiments Units of measurement are kg and Tornios Experiment: Purpose: To determine effects of atmospheric moisture on impact of asteroid-to-Earth collision. Method: Models of Earth and asteroids at 86% and 12% atmospheric moisture. Results: Shown in Figure 1

Passage II - Answers C – 700,000 kg H – 86% D – A collision is capable of global catastrophe.

Passage III – Your Turn What do Figure 1 and 2 show? What are the units of measurement? What is Purpose? Method? Results of the Experiment? What does Figure 3 show? What are the units of measurement? Answers questions 4 -6

Passage III - Answers Figure 1 and 2 show decay of curves of 2 isotopes. The units of measurements are Time (days) and ration of N/N0 Purpose: To study the decay curves and correlation between isotope decay and radiation in two Th isotopes. Method: To record N/N0 vs. time, and radiation energy vs. time. Results: Given in Figures 1- 3. Figure 3 shows radiation emitted over time from the 2 isotopes. The units of measurement are Time (days) and radiation energy (MeV)

Passage III - Answers 4. F – 1 day 5. D – 0.1MeV 6. G – 0.55

Passage IV: Read Passage 4 Answers questions 1 – 5 independently. Time: 10 minutes.

Passage IV – Answers: D – between 91 and 110 minutes G – About 50 minutes A – Merismopedia glauca G – Katagnymene spiralis C - 800

Session 3 – Homework Answers B J F C G D H 10. G 11. D 12. G 13. A 14. H 15. D 16. F 17. D