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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Math 9 Today we had a quiz on square roots and scientific notation. Students started page 234 #1-14 and will have time to finish in class tomorrow. This is due Tuesday.

Math 9 test Monday- square roots, scientific notation, exponent laws, irrational numbers and subsets of real numbers.

Science 9 test Tuesday

Science 10 test Tuesday

There will be extra help for science 10 Monday afterschool.

The test outline for the science test is below:
Test outline

Chemical Reactions Science 10

What is a chemical reaction?
What are the indicators of a chemical reaction? Page 173
What is a physical property? Page 173
Safety symbols and lab rules page 176-178
How is the periodic table organized. Page 185
Know how to draw a Bohr model.
Be able to calculate protons, neutrons and electrons – know their charges
What is an ion? Ionic charge – page 186 plus sheet forming ions.
Ionic compounds page 192 what is it? Valance electrons?
Writing and naming ionic compounds.
Polyatomic compounds – what are they? How to write their formula, naming polyatomic compounds, review questions 1-5 on page 198
Molecular compounds page 201
What are they? Define covalent bond, combining capacity, naming and writing formulas,


Test Outline Science 9

The difference between revolution and rotation page 405
What are star constellations, be able to identify some. You have a copy of a star map.
Be able to compare plant and stars
Be able to describe planets; what are their characteristics distances from the sun, relative size.
Big Bang theory
Questions 479- 1-3
Solar system scale
Planet summary, defining bolded words gas giants, terrestrial planets, inner planets, outer planets page 424-428, questions 1-4, 6,7
Other objects in the solar system: planetary moons, asteroid, meteors and meteorites, comets – notes from class.
Parts of the sun and their functions.