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A 2 page worksheet designed for AQA GCSE Biology on The Heart & Blood Vessels
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Required Practical 8 - Investigate the effect of light or gravity on the growth of newly germinated seedlings
This powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record length and time), AT 3 (selecting appropriate apparatus and techniques to measure the growth of shoots or roots), AT 4 (safe and ethical use of plants to measure physiological function of growth in response to light or gravity), AT 7 (observations of biological specimens to produce labelled scientific drawings) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required.
The powerpoint covers:
Background on phototropisms and geotropisms
Aim
Required apparatus
A suitable method
A suitable results table to record data
A look at the variables in this experiment
How to draw biological drawings
Past paper exam questions
Summary
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Food Chains & Predator-Prey Cycles
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Food Chains: Producers
Food Chains: Consumers (Primary, secondary, tertiary, apex predators, decomposers)
Identifying consupers / producers in food chains
Predator and Prey
Predator-Prey Cycles (with example of field mice & owls)
Exam Practise
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1 - Intro to Ecology
2 - Adaptations
3 - Food Chains & Pre
4 - Trophic Levels & Pyramids of Biomass
5 - Quadrats & Transects
6 - The Carbon & Water Cycles
7 - Decay
8 - Biodiveristy & Waste Management
9 - Land Use & Deforestation
10 - Global Warming & Maintaining Biodiveristy
11 - Food Security, Farming & Fishing
12 - Biotechnology
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Pyramids of Biomass & Trophic Levels
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Trophic Levels
How to read Pyramids of Biomass and key features
Why is there energy loss between trophic levels (not all eaten, not all absorbed, faeces, respiration etc.)
Working with biomass (concept of dry biomass)
Calculating efficiency of biomass transfers
Drawing pyramids of biomass
Decomposers
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Food Security, Farming & Fishing
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Concept of Food Secuirty
Biological factors which are threatening food security (Increasing birth rate, changing diets in developed countries, new pests and pathogens, environmental changes, cost of agricultural inputs and conflicts)
Increasing the efficiency of food production (restricting movement, conserving heat, high protein diet)
Problems behind intensive farming
Sustainable Fisheries (introducing fishing quotas and net sizes)
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Land Use & Deforestation
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
How humans reduce land use (building, quarrying, farming, dumping waste)
Deforestation
* Reasons for it
* Consequences of deforestation (reduced biodiversity, more CO2 in atmosphere, more methane, creation of monocultures etc.)
Peat Bogs
* Their importance
* What happens when beat bogs are destroyed
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Decay
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
The concept of decay (role of detrivores)
Factors affecting decomposition (temperature, water availability, oxygen, presence of decomposers/detrivores)
Using decay to make compost (use as a fertilizer)
Best conditions for decay
How to design a compost bin
Making Biogas (production of methane)
Exam Practise
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Plant Disease & Defence
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Plant Diseases (TMV, Rose Black Spot, Aphids)
Plant Ion Deficiencies (nitrate & magenesium)
Signs of plant disease and identifying plant disease
Plant Defence Systems
* Physical
* Chemical
* Mechanical
Practise Questions
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1 - Communicable Diseases
2 - The Immune System
3 - Vaccines
4 - Antibiotics & Drugs
5 - Monoclonal Antibodies
6 - Plant Disease & Defence
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Effect of Lifestyle on Disease and Cancer
Full powerpoint including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included.
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Includes:
The human, lifestyle and financial cost of non-communicable diseases
Risk factors
The link between correlation and causation
The impact of smoking, alcohol diet and exercise and carcinogens on a wide range of diseases
Carinogens & Cancer
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1 - Enzymes & Metabolism
2 - Digestion
3 - The heart & Blood Vessels
4 - The Lungs & Blood Composition
5 - CHD & Health Issues
6 - Effect of Lifestyle on Disease & Cancer
7 - Plant Tissues #1
8 - Plant Tissues #2
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
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Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Biotechnology
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
What is Biotechnology?
GM Crops (Golden Rice)
Producing Mycoprotein (Fusarium)
Producing insulin to treat diabetes
Exam Practise
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1 - Intro to Ecology
2 - Adaptations
3 - Food Chains & Predator Prey Cycles
4 - Trophic Levels & Pyramids of Biomass
5 - Quadrats & Transects
6 - The Carbon & Water Cycles
7 - Decay
8 - Biodiveristy & Waste Management
9 - Land Use & Deforestation
10 - Global Warming & Maintaining Biodiveristy
11 - Food Security, Farming & Fishing
12 - Biotechnology
Searching for lessons from other GCSE Biology topics? Find them all below:
Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Nervous System & The Brain
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Structure of the Nervous System
CNS vs. PNS
The role of motor, relay and sensory neurones
Electrical nerve impulses
Synapses & Neurotransmitters
Reflexes and Reflex Arcs
Understand the structure of the brain
* The Cerebral Cortex
* The Cerebellum
* The Medulla Oblongata
* The Hypothalamus
* The Pituitary gland
Learn how to study the brain using various techniques
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Inheritance
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Chromosomes, genes and alleles
Inheritance key words
Genetic crosses and punnet squares
The work of Gregor Mendel & the history of Genetics
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Evolution, Variation & Speciation
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Variation (Genetics vs. Environment)
Evolution: Lamarck & Early Ideas
Evolution: Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
Evolution: Accepting Darwin’s Ideas and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Contribution
Speciation
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Endocrine System and Negative Feedback
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
What is the endocrine system?
Location of main glands in the human body and the hormones they produce
The endocrine system vs. the nervous system
The Pituitary Gland & hormones it releases
The role of adrenaline in increasing heart rate
The role of thyroxine in metabolism and the concept of negative feedback
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Kidneys (Maintaining Water & Nitrogen Balance in the Body)
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Why is balancing water concentration important?
Waste products and how the body deals with them (e.g. water, CO2, ions & urea)
The breakdown of excess amino acids to Urea in the liver
The structure of the kidney and how it produces urine (flitration and selective reabsorption) with annotated diagrams
How ADH controls the amount of water reabsorbed by the kidneys & negative feedback loops
Kidney failure
Kidney Dialysis
Kidney Transplant
Practise Questions
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Control of Blood Glucose Levels
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
How glucose enters the body
The role of Insulin in lowering blood glucose levels
The role of Glucagon in raising blood glucose levels (Higher Tier)
The concept of negative feedback
Diabetes
* Type I
* Type II
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on The Menstrual Cycle
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Human reproduction & secondary sex characteristics
The role of testosterone in sperm production
Female reproduction and the menstrual cycle
The role of FSH, LH, oestrogen and progesterone in the control of the menstrual cycle
Exam questions with answers
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Contraception & Treating Infertility
A carefully laid out powerpoint covering the main content in easy to understand slides, including exam practise and answers as well as a summary page of all the main revision points included. Workbook available for purchase to go alongside powerpoint.
Includes:
Hormonal contraception
* Oral Contraceptives
* Injection, implant or skin patch
* Intrauterine devices
Non-hormonal contraception
* Barrier methods
* Intrauterine devices
* Spermicidal agents
* Abstinence
* Surgical methods of sterilisation
Infertility
Treating Infertility
* Fertility Drug
* In-vitro Fertilisation
A huge list of over 125 quick questions to test knowledge of the Cell Biology topic
This includes the topics of:
Cell Structure (prokaryotes, eukaryotes, organelles etc.)
Cell Specialisation (specialzied cells, muscle cells, sperm cells, nerve cells, root hair cells, xylem & phloem)
Microscopy (parts of a microscope, magnification vs. resolution, light microscopes, SEM vs. TEM, magnification calculations, convering units)
Culturing Microorganisms (bacterial cell divison, agar plants, aseptic techniques, calculating mean division time of bacteria)
Mitosis & Cell Cycle (genes, alleles, chromatids, haploid vs. diploid, cell cycle, mitosis, interphase, mitotic index, cancer)
**Stem Cells **(embryonic vs. adult stem cells, meristem cells, therapeutic cloning, uses of stem cells)
Diffusion (definitions, concentration gradients, ways molecules cross membranes, examples of adaptations for diffusion in small intestine, alveloi, gills of fish, leaves and root hair cells of plants)
Osmosis (definitions, dilute vs. concentrated solutions, solute vs. solvent sports drinks)
Active Transport (using energy, against concentration gradients, examples in plants and animals)
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1 - Cell Structure
2 - Cell Specialisation & Differentiation
3 - Microscopy
4 - Culturing Mircoorganisms
5 - Chromosomes, Mitosis & Cell Cycle
6 - Stem Cells
7 - Transport in cells #1 - Diffusion
8 - Transport in cells #2 - Osmosis & Active Transport
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Unit 1 - Cell Biology
Unit 2 - Organization
Unit 3 - Infection & Response
Unit 4 - Bioenergetics
Unit 5 - Homeostasis & Response
Unit 6 - Inheritance, Variation & Evolution
Unit 7 - Ecology
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Required Practical 10 - Investigate the effect of temperature on the rate of decay of fresh milk by measuring pH change
This powerpoint covers AT 1 (use appropriate apparatus to record temperature and pH), AT 3 (the use of appropriate apparatus to measure anaerobic decay), AT 4 (safe use of microorganisms), AT 5 (measurement of rate of decay by pH change) and includes all practical and mathmatical skills required.
The powerpoint covers:
Background on decay and factors affecting the rate of decay
Aim
Required apparatus
A suitable method to measure the decay of milk and a method for a model experiment measuring the rate lipase breaks the fat in milk down into glycerol and 3 fatty acids
A suitable results table to record data and a graph to plot
How to calculate rate of change from raw data and graphs
How to plot graphs in the exam
Past paper exam questions
Summary