Completely revised and updated to provide easy-to-understand answers to students' most frequently asked questions.
-   Need to know the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell?
- What causes smog?
- Whether aluminum is a compound?
- What radioactivity is?
- How to label the parts of a flower?
- What makes a reptile a reptile?
- Which of Newton's Three Laws of Motion is illustrated by a pitcher throwing a curveball?
- What causes ocean tides?

Everything You Need to Know About Science Homework provides fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students and their parents with the information they need to complete science assignments, write report to prepare for tests.

Part 1 What's Life All About?
Part 2 The Animal Kingdom
Part 3 The plant Kingdom
Part 4 Ecology and the Landscape of Life
Part 5 Planet Earth
Part 6 Outer Space
Part 7 The Physical World

A desk reference for students and parents