Grade 7 Natural Science Term 3 Test 1 + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for their Term 3 Natural Sciences assessment with this 50-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1½ hours and focuses mainly on energy, energy transfer, renewable resources and heat.
The test covers:
- Renewable and non-renewable energy
- Kinetic and potential energy
- Chemical, electrical, light and thermal energy
- Energy transfers and transformations
- Law of conservation of energy
- Useful and wasted energy
- Heat transfer and conduction
- Convection
- Insulation
- Fossil fuels and their environmental impact
- Solar energy
- Advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy
- Energy-saving techniques
- Gravitational potential energy
- Scientific investigations
- Independent and dependent variables
- Interpreting experimental results
The paper includes multiple-choice, matching, true or false, short-answer questions, energy transformation scenarios and scientific investigations.
Learners also analyse a practical water-heating experiment, identifying variables and interpreting temperature results, as well as a car-ride diagram to apply their understanding of kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy and gravity.
Total: 50 marks | Duration: 1½ hours | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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