Life Systems
      Habitats and Communities

• Various factors that affect plants and animals in a specific habitat
• Classification organisms according to their role in a food chain.
• Flow of energy in food chain.
• Structural adaptations of plants and animals
• Animals and plants live in specific habitats.
• Plants and animals in local habitats.

Matter and Materials
      Materials That Transmit, Reflect, or Absorb Light or Sound

• Transmission of light in different materials
• Transparent, Translucent and opaque objects
• Light absorption and casting of shadow by opaque objects
• Properties of materials
• Physical changes in a material that can alter the sound it makes
• Traveling of sound through a variety of materials

Energy and Control
      Light and Sound Energy

• Natural and artificial light sources
• Behavior of light
• Objects that produce their own light and those that reflect light from another source
• Color, a property of light
• Location, shape, and size of a shadow according to the source of light
• Interaction of light with a variety of optical devices
• Objects which emits both light and heat and those who emits light but no heat
• Traveling of sound through a substance
• Variety of sounds according to pitch and loudness
• The range of sounds that humans can hear with the range of sounds that other animals can hear
• Sounds are caused by vibrations
• Human ear and detection of vibrations

Structures and Mechanisms
      Pulleys and Gears

• The functions of pulley systems and gear systems
• Transfer of rotatory motion from one system to another
• Operation of gears in planes
• Mechanical advantages of using a variety of pulleys and gears

Earth and Space Systems
      Rocks, Minerals, and Erosion

• Difference between minerals and rocks
• Observable properties of rocks and minerals
• Classes of rocks
• Rocks and minerals from the local environment and rocks and minerals from other places
• The effects of wind, water, and ice on the landscape
• Formation of soil
• Rocks that contain records of the earth’s history

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