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Year 8 revision topics for end of year exam 2014

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Biology

Healthy Living
  • Balanced diet, structure and function of the digestive system
  • Structure and function of the heart, blood and blood vessels
  • Respiration, breathing and gas exchange
  • Effects of smoking
  • Aerobic an anaerobic respiration including word equations

Diseases
  • Diseases, pathogens (bacteria, viruses and fungi)
  • How are disease spread?
  • The body's first line of defence and antibody production
  • Vaccinations

Biology Useful Links

Healthy living:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/organisms_behaviour_health/diet_drugs/revision/1/ . Go through the whole list.

Diseases:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/organisms_behaviour_health/disease/revision/1/ Go through the whole list.


Chemistry

Separting Mixtures
  • Particulate theory of matter (solids, liquds and gases).
  • How they change state and how the particles behave

Atoms, Elements and Compounds
  • Examples and differences between atoms, elements and compounds
  • Mistures including solution (solvent & solute) and separation techniques, charomatography, distillation, filtration,
    evaporation
  • Periodic table: groups and periods
  • Properties of metals and non-metals
  • Chemical reactions, chemical symbols and simple formulae and word equations, oxidation, combusiton and
    rusting
  • Conservation of mass in a chemical reaction
Useful Chemistry Links

Particle theory:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/chemical_material_behaviour/particle_model/revision/1/ Go through the whole list.

Atoms, elements, and compounds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/chemical_material_behaviour/atoms_elements/revision/1/ Go through the whole list.

Compounds and mixtures:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/chemical_material_behaviour/compounds_mixtures/revision/2/

Atoms and molecules: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/chemical_material_behaviour/compounds_mixtures/revision/3/

Mixtures:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/chemical_material_behaviour/compounds_mixtures/revision/7/

Separating mixtures:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/chemical_material_behaviour/compounds_mixtures/revision/9/

Physics

Magnetism

  • Compasses, magnetic fields, electromagnets and their application
  • Motor and generator effect
  • Sources of electricity, e.g. hydro electric, geothermal, nuclear power and fossil fuels.

Sound and Heat
  • Sound an dwaves, pitch, frequency, amplitude, speed of sound
  • How the human ear works
  • Heat transfer
  • Conduction, convection and raciation
Useful Physics Links

Magnetism:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/energy_electricity_forces/magnets_electric_effects/revision/1/ Go through the whole list except for electrolysis.

Heat and temperature:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/energy_electricity_forces/energy_transfer_storage/revision/4/

Thermal energy transfer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/energy_electricity_forces/energy_transfer_storage/revision/5/


Investigative Skills
Students also should be able to identify/suggest variables in a practical investigation (dependent, independent and controls), analyse data  (draw/read graphs) and draw conclusions based on evidence from data. 

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-science-process-skills.htm#didyouknowout





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