ACT Science
Class Expectations
Sustainability
Easter Island
Do You Know Miss T?
100
The number of questions on the ACT Science Test

What is 40 multiple choice questions?

100

The class policy on food and drinks

What is they aren't allowed?

100
Defined as everything around us
What is the environment?
100

The islanders were of this ethnic background

What is Polynesian?
100
Miss T graduated from this college
What is LSU?
200

The amount of time allotted for the ACT Science Test

What is 35 minutes?

200

The only person who can be out of their seat whenever they want

Who is Miss T?

200

The biological science that studies how organisms interact with one another and with their environment

What is ecology?
200

When the dutch explorer found the island in 1722, he described it as this.

What is a barren wasteland?

200
One of Miss T's hobbies
What is hiking, weight-lifting, or traveling?
300

Students have the hardest time with this type of Science ACT passage

What is comparative view points passage?

300

The place you can expect your Do Now and Exit Ticket to be placed

Where is the blue drawers beside the front door?

300
An interdisciplinary study of how human interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment.
What is environmental science?
300

Summarize the hypothesis from Easter's End by Mr. Jared Diamond

What is "the residents of the island depleted their resources until there was nothing left and caused their own demise"?

300

Miss T's favorite makeup/beauty brand

What is Fenty Beauty? (We love a sustainable queen)

400

The number of passages on the ACT Science test

What is anywhere between four to seven?

400

Scholars will do this with their notebooks

What is maintain them for a grade?

(It's your responsibility to get your notes from a classmate if you miss for any reason)

400

The astounding variety of organisms, the natural systems in which they exist and interact, and the natural services that these organisms and living systems provide

What is biodiversity?

400

Summarize the hypothesis from Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island.

What is "the rats who were brought over with the colonists killed off the vegetation by preventing new trees and plants from being germinated to replace the ones the residents chopped down"

400

Miss T's biggest pet peeve 

What is repeating herself?
500

Students should probably skip this passage and complete it last

What is the comparative viewpoints passage?

500

Scholars will not have homework on these days

When is Wednesdays and Test Days?

500

Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans [BONUS: they are divided into these two categories]

What are natural resources?

BONUS: What are renewable and nonrenewable resources

500

Easter island is an example of Environmental science because it ...

What is it shows the interactions between the humans and the living and non-living things in their environment and how these interactions can affect human survival?

500

Miss T was a state champion in this sport

What is softball?

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