Revision topics for Year 11 core and additional science
Biology
B1 - Understanding organisms
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Fitness and health
o - Blood pressure and how to measure it
o - Fitness and its link to blood pressure.
o - Types of fitness (Higher only)
o - Causes of heart disease
o - Symptoms of heart disease
o - Effects of high blood pressure
Proteins carbohydrates and fats
o - Uses of macronutrients
o - Food tests
o - Components of a balanced diet
Obesity and deficiency
o - Causes of obesity
o - Effects of dietary deficiency
o - Prevention of obesity and deficiency
Pathogens and causes of disease
o - Types of pathogen
o - Classification of disease by pathogen
o - How diseases are spread
Prevention of Disease
o - Hygiene
o - Healthy diet and it’s link to prevention of disease
o - Vaccination
Cancer and non infectious disease
o - Types of cancer
o - Causes of cancer including carcinogens and genetic effects
o - Lifestyle and cancer risk
o - Treatments for cancer
o - Difference between benign and malignant tumours.
Immunisation and testing of drugs
o - History of vaccines
o - Social issues with vaccination
- Herd immunity
- How drugs can be used to fight disease
- How vaccines work.
The eye and senses
o - The five senses
o - How the eye works
o - Structure of the eye
o - Binocular vision
o - Long and short sightedness
o - Use of lenses to correct vision
Nervous system and structure
o - Structure of neurones
o - The reflex arc
o - Function of neurones
o - Reaction times
Drugs
o - Legal versus illegal drugs
o - Harmful nature of all drugs
o - Social issues surrounding use of drugs
o - Key words associated with drugs
Smoking
o - Effects of smoking
o - Long term consequences of smoking
o - Timeline of understanding about smoking and cancer link
o - Carcinogens
o - Statistics associated with cigarette smoking
Alcohol
o - Effects of alcohol on the body
o - Consequences of drinking alcohol.
o - Drink driving
o - Statistics associated with alcohol
Homeostasis
o - Definition of homeostasis
o - Maintenance of body temperature, water level and blood sugar.
o - Negative feedback
o - Importance of homeostasis
o - What happens when homeostasis goes wrong
Insulin and diabetes
o - Causes of diabetes
o - Symptoms of diabetes
o - Hormones vs nerves
o - How insulin works
o - Type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Plant Growth
Plant Hormones and commerncial uses
Inheritance
o - Causes of variation
o - Chromosomes, DNA and genes
o - Inheritance vs environment
Inheritance and chromosomes (Higher Tier only)
o - Dominant and recessive alleles
o - Monohybrid crosses
o - Punnet squares
o - Phenotype and genotype
Genetic disease
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- Cystic fibrosis
- Inheritance of simple genetic diseases
- Effects of genetic disease
- Genetic modification to eliminate disease
B2 - Understanding our environment
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Classification
o - The variety of living things.
o - Classification and classification systems
o - Evolutionary relationships
o - Evolutionary trees
o - Species
o - Variation between species
Energy flow
o - Food chains, webs, pyramids of number
o - Energy loss in food chains
o - Energy flow through food chains and webs
o - Excretory products
Recycling
o - Carbon cycle
o - Decay and decomposition
o - Nitrogen fixing
o - Uses of nitrogen
o - The nitrogen cycle
Interdependence
o - Predator prey relationships
o - Cleaner species mutualism
o - Parasitism
Adaptations
o - The changing environment
o - Adaptations to environment
o - Habitats
o - Predator/prey relationships
Natural selection
o - Extinction
o - Evolution
Population and pollution
o - Human population and carbon footprint
o - Global warming
o - Ozone depletion
o - Acid rain
Sustainability
o - Sustainable development
o - Conservation
C1 - Carbon Chemistry
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Making crude oil useful
Using carbon fuels
Making polymers
Designing polymers
Cooking food and additives
Smells, paints and pigments
C2 - Chemical resources
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The structure of the Earth
Construction materials
Metals and alloys
Making cars
Making ammonia
Acids and bases
Fertilisers and crop yields
Sodium chloride
C3 - Chemical economics
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Rate of reaction 1 – Reaction times and rates
Rate of reaction 2 – Reaction rate and changing conditions
Rate of reaction 3 – Explosions and catalysts Reacting masses, Percentage yield and atom economy,
Energy, Batch or continuous?, Allotropes of carbon and nanochemistry
C4 - The periodic table
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Atomic structure
Ionic bonding
Covalent bonding
The periodic table
The group 1 elements
The group 7 elements
Transition elements
Metal structure and properties
Purifying and testing water
P1 - Energy for the home
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Heating houses and keeping homes warm
A spectrum of waves
Light and lasers
Cooking and communication using waves
Data transmission
Wireless signals
Stable Earth
P2 - Energy resources
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Collecting energy from the Sun
Generating electricity
Global warming
Fuels for power
Nuclear radiations
Exploring our solar system
Threats to the Earth
The Big Bang
P3 - Forces for transport
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Speed and Changing speed
Forces and motion
Work and power
Energy on the move
Crumple zones
Falling safely
The energy of games and theme rides
P4 - Radiation for life
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Sparks
Uses of electrostatics
Safe electricals
Ultrasound
What is radioactivity?
Uses of radioisotopes
Radiation treatment
Fission and fusion