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A lesson / revision PowerPoint covering all information needed and containing informative slides and practise questions
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
A carefully laid out and concise lesson / revision resource on Plate Boundaries from the Tectonic Hazards topic for AQA
Download includes a Powerpoint, Activity Sheet & Worksheet
Powerpoint includes:
The 3 types of plate margins
Constructive plate margins
* Main processes that occur, earthquakes, volcanoes, formation of ocean ridges and rift valleys, real life example
Destructive plate margins
* Main processes that occur, earthquakes, volcanoes, formation of ocean trenches and fold mountains, real life example
Conservative plate margins
* Main processes that occur, earthquakes, real life example
Summary table of the 3 plate margins
Difference between shield and compositive volcanoes
Earthquakes, how they occur, how they are measured, the Richter & Mercalli scales, seismometers
Activity explanation, practise questions and exam questions
Summary slide
The activity sheet is a 2 truths 1 lie activity, designed to help students to understand key concepts in small groups. Full instructions on how to use included. Estimated to take 10 minutes
The worksheet covers key concepts from the lesson displayed in an engaing format. Estimated to take 10-15 minutes.
This is the second lesson in the Tectonic Hazards topic. The other lessons can be found below:
1. Natural Hazards & Plate Tectonics
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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Save with the Unit 7 Lessons BUNDLE
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.
Purchase the worksheets to go alongside this lesson here. Or view a pack containing worksheets for the whole GCSE Biology organization topic here
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
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
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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
Need another lesson from this topic? Check out our other downloads below:
Save with the Unit 7 Lessons BUNDLE
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
A carefully laid out and concise lesson / revision resource on Natural Hazards & Tectonic Plates from the Tectonic Hazards topic for AQA
Download includes a Powerpoint, Activity Sheet & Worksheet
Powerpoint includes:
Concept of hazards and the main groups of hazards
Difference between a hazard and a natural event
Hazard Risk and factors affecting it
Structure of the Earth
Oceanic vs. Continental Plates
Tectonic plates & plate margins
Convection currents, slab pull and ridge push
Global distribution of Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Activity explanation, practise questions and exam questions
Summary slide
The activity sheet is a Five-A-Side activity, designed to help students recall key terms in groups of 3. Full instructions on how to use included. Estimated to take 10 minutes
The worksheet covers key concepts from the lesson displayed in an engaing format. Estimated to take 10-15 minutes.
This is the first lesson in the Tectonic Hazards topic. The other lessons can be found below:
2. Plate Boundaries
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
A carefully deisgned worksheet for Carbohydrates from the AQA A-Level Biology Specification.
Perfect for end of topic assessment, knowledge reinforcement and revision.
Answer sheet included.
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Cell Structure
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:
Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes
Structure of animal cells
Structure of plant cells
Structure of bacterial cells
Comparrison table between all three
Full GCSE Biology Lesson / Revision Powerpoint on Meiosis & Reproduction
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:
Comparrison of sexual & asexual reproduction
Basics on chromosomes, gametes, diploid vs. haploid etc
An explanation of types of gametes (animals & plants) and fertilization
The process of meisois
Meiosis vs. Mitosis
The advantages of both sexual & asexual reproduction
Examples of organisms that can reproduce both sexually & asexually