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Grade 8 · Science · Unit 6 of 13

Water: Properties & Landforms

Why water is special and how it shapes the land

What your child practises

Children learn why water's properties matter for climate and living things, and how water, ice and flooding shape Earth's surface, including Manitoba landforms.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: SCI.8.E.6, SCI.8.E.14 · the properties of water and the role of water in shaping Earth's surface

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Deposition is…

    • the freezing of water
    • the wearing away of rock
    • the dropping of material that water, wind or ice carried
    • the heating of soil

  2. Question 2

    Which is a solution?

    • salt dissolved in water
    • pebbles in a bucket
    • sand in water
    • oil on water

  3. Question 3

    Water vapour changing into liquid droplets is…

    • condensation
    • melting
    • evaporation
    • deposition of soil

  4. Question 4

    At normal pressure, water boils at…

    • 0 °C
    • 50 °C
    • 212 °C
    • 100 °C

  5. Question 5

    About how much of Earth's surface is covered by water?

    • about 10 percent
    • about 100 percent
    • about 70 percent
    • about 30 percent

  6. Question 6

    An ice age is…

    • a single cold week
    • a long period of colder climate with large ice sheets
    • a kind of flood
    • a winter storm

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