Combined Science

Y10 Combined Science (Higher)

This lesson introduces the topic of ecology and looks at communities and how organisms interact.

This lesson identifies biotic and abiotic factors and looks at how changes in them can affect communities.

This lesson looks at competition and how organisms are adapted to survive in certain conditions.

This lesson practices the skills of calculating surface area : volume ratio, averages and uncertainty.

This lesson introduces the first sampling required practical and describes how a quadrat should be used to estimate population size.

This lesson looks at the second sampling required practical and describes how transect lines can be used to test a hypothesis.

This lesson looks at the importance of cycles for living organisms with a particular focus on the water and carbon cycles.

This lesson looks at the effect that humans have on ecosystems with a focus on global warming.

This lesson introduces biodiversity and the effect that humans can have on it.

This lesson revises communities, biotic and abiotic factors, adaptations and sampling and applies your knowledge to exam questions.

This lesson revises cycles, global warming and biodiversity and applies your knowledge to exam questions.

In this lesson we will learn about Dr Beth Penrose who is a plant scientist investigating how we can reduce the human intake of contaminated crops.