STUDY FOR YOUR VOCABULARY TEST

1. STUDY FOR YOUR VOCABULARY TEST

2. 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;

3. Sentence Examples • Bereft • 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.

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

5. 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

6. Breaking Down – SmartPoints

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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.

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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

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

20. 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?

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. Passage II –Answers • Table 1: • 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

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

26. 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

27. 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)

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

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

30. Passage IV – Answers: • D – between 91 and 110 minutes • G – About 50 minutes • A – Merismopediaglauca • G – Katagnymenespiralis • C - 800

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