8th Grade TAKS help

SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES  (objective 1 )

Safety

Planning and Doing Investigations                    

Collecting Data

Organizing Data

Interpreting Data

Communicating Conclusions

Drawing Inferences about Products and Services

Using Models

LIVING SYSTEMS (objective 2)

Properties of Systems

cells

Levels of Organization

Photosynthesis

Ecology of Environments

biomes and their Organisms

Ecological Succession

Human Organ Systems

Feedback Mechanisms

Inherited versus Learned Characteristics

Predicting Inherited Characteristicss

MATTER  (objective 3)

The Atom

Elements and Compounds

Chemical Reactionsd

Classifying Substances: The Periodic Table

Interactions of Matter and Energy

MOTION, FORCES, AND ENERGY  (objective 4)

Energy Transformations

Unbalanced Forces

Measuring and Graphing Motion

Simple Machines

Forces and Living Processes

Properties of Waves

EARTH AND SPACE SYSTEMS   (objective 5)

The water cycle

Watersheds

Sunlight, weather, and ocean systems

Erosion, deposition, and weathering

Plate Tectonics

Forces that change earths's surfacce

The Rock Cycle

Decay of Biomass

catastrophic Events on Earth

Causes of Species Extinctioons

Human Interactions with Earth's Resources

Interfering with Earth's Cycles

Pollution

Earth's Motions and Time

Seasons

Phases of the Moon

The Universe