Natural Sciences and Technology Grade 5-B ... - Thunderbolt Kids

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Table of Contents Energy and Change and Systems and Control 4 1 Stored energy in fuels 4 1.1 What are fuels? . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Burning fuels . . . . . ... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.3 Safety with fire . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 Energy and electricity 30 2.1 Cells and batteries . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.2 Mains electricity . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.3 Safety and electricity ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3 Energy and movement 42 3.1 Elastics and springs . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 4 Systems for moving things 52 4.1 Wheels and axles . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Earth and Beyond and Systems and Control 70 1 Planet Earth 70 1.1 The Earth moves . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 2 Surface of the Earth 84 2.1 Rocks . . . . . ... ...... . . . . ... . . ...... . . . 84 2.2 Soil comes from rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 2.3 Soil types . . ... . . . ... . . . . . . . ... . . ...... . 108 3 Sedimentary rocks 126 3.1 Formation of sedimentary rock . . .... . . ... . . . . . 126 3.2 Uses of sedimentary rock . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 4 Fossils 140 4.1 Fossils in rock . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 4.2 Body and trace fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 4.3 Importance of South African fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 5 Notes 164 1

Table of Contents<br />

Energy <strong>and</strong> Change <strong>and</strong> Systems <strong>and</strong> Control 4<br />

1 Stored energy in fuels 4<br />

1.1 What are fuels? . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

1.2 Burning fuels . . . . . ... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.3 Safety with fire . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

2 Energy <strong>and</strong> electricity 30<br />

2.1 Cells <strong>and</strong> batteries . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

2.2 Mains electricity . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

2.3 Safety <strong>and</strong> electricity ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />

3 Energy <strong>and</strong> movement 42<br />

3.1 Elastics <strong>and</strong> springs . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

4 Systems for moving things 52<br />

4.1 Wheels <strong>and</strong> axles . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />

Earth <strong>and</strong> Beyond <strong>and</strong> Systems <strong>and</strong> Control 70<br />

1 Planet Earth 70<br />

1.1 The Earth moves . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />

2 Surface of the Earth 84<br />

2.1 Rocks . . . . . ... ...... . . . . ... . . ...... . . . 84<br />

2.2 Soil comes from rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />

2.3 Soil types . . ... . . . ... . . . . . . . ... . . ...... . 108<br />

3 Sedimentary rocks 126<br />

3.1 Formation of sedimentary rock . . .... . . ... . . . . . 126<br />

3.2 Uses of sedimentary rock . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 135<br />

4 Fossils 140<br />

4.1 Fossils in rock . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140<br />

4.2 Body <strong>and</strong> trace fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151<br />

4.3 Importance of South African fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153<br />

5 Notes 164<br />

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