Homework week of 8.26.2019

SCIENCE STUDENTS: Click on the link to be taken to the article for homework. In the blog post below, you are given questions to answer related to the article your class has been assigned.
Please write the answers to your homework on a separate sheet of notebook paper.
At the top of your paper, you should write:
YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME
SCIENCE HW T1-2

6th grade homework
The following are the questions about this article that you should answer:
1. Make a list of 3 reasons growing food would be difficult on Mars.
2. EXPLAIN what aerogel is (in complete sentences).
3. EXPLAIN what terraforming is (in complete sentences).
4. The last section of the article talks about "photosynthetic life." What are some examples of photosynthetic life on earth?
5. Give your opinion about farming on Mars- do you think it is a wise use of our resources? EXPLAIN why or why not.

7th grade homework
The following are questions about this article that you should answer:
1. Use your notes about the 6 characteristics of life. Find 2 examples from the text that are evidence that this species of salamander is a living thing. Explain how your examples from the text are evidence of at least 1 of the 6 characteristics of life.
2.  EXPLAIN what a polyploid is. Use the internet to find 1 other example of an animal that is a polyploid. 
3. The writer of this article says "If you are living in an Ohio swamp, it seems, you may be better off without men." Give 1 piece of evidence from this article that supports this claim.
4. Describe the function of these salamander's tails (write in a complete sentence).

8th grade homework
The following are questions about this article that you should answer:
1. All experiments that scientists do start with a question. What is the question the scientists in the article were trying to answer by eating Legos?
2. Come up with a plausible hypothesis for this experiment.
3. There was at least 1 variable the scientists in this article kept constant during their experiment - what was that variable?
4. What kind of data do you think these scientists took in order to confirm whether or not Legos are harmful to the digestive tract? (For example, on last week's quiz, the experiment was testing whether or not dogs can see a certain color of frisbee better than other colors. The type of data collected was the number of times a dog could catch a certain color of frisbee).
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