Core Knowledge

Bonding

• Bonding (Ionic, Covalent, Metallic)
• Polymers
• Properties of metals and alloys

Electricity

• Current, potential difference & resistance
• Resistors
• Series and parallel circuits
• Energy transfers
• Everyday energy and the national grid

Organisation

• Digestive system
• Heart & blood vessels
• Non-communicable disease
• Plant tissues and organs

Energy change

• Energy transfer during an exothermic and endothermic reactions
• Reaction profiles
• Energy change of reactions (bond energy calculations)

Particle model of matter

• Density
• Changes of state
• Internal energy
• Specific heat capacity
• Specific latent heat

Infection

• Communicable disease
• Bacterial and viral disease
• Fungal & protist disease

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Response to Infections

• First line of defence
• Drugs in use – antibiotics, painkillers & vaccines
• Drug development

Electrolysis

• Electrolysis of molten compounds
• Electrolysis of solutions
• Half equations

Bioenergetics

• Photosynthesis
• Uses of glucose
• Respiration
• Metabolism

Acids and Alkalis

• Reactions of metals and acids
• Neutralisation
• Soluble salts practical
• pH scale
• Strong and weak acids

Atomic structure

• Models of the atom and isotopes
• Atoms and nuclear radiation
• Decay equation and half life
• Radioactive contamination

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Quantitative

• Conservation of mass
• Relative formula mass
• Concentrations of solutions

Homeostasis

• Nervous system
• Endocrine system
• Blood glucose
• Hormones in reproduction
• Contraception

Rates

• Calculating the rate of a reaction
• Factors which affect the rate of a reaction
• Catalyst
• Reversible reactions and dynamic equilibrium
• Le Chatelier's principle

Forces

• Contact and non-contact forces
• Work done and energy transfer
• Forces and elasticity
• Forces and motion
• Newton’s Laws of motion

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Inheritance

• Sexual and asexual reproduction
• Meiosis
• Genetic Inheritance
• Variation and evolution
• Selective breeding and genetic modification
• Classification

Purity

• Formulations
• Chromatography
• Testing for gases

Organic Chemistry

• Crude oil, hydrocarbons and alkanes
• Fractional distillation
• Properties of hydrocarbons
• Cracking and alkenes
• Addition polymerisation

Waves

• Transverse and longitudinal
• Electromagnetic spectrum and it’s properties
• Reflection and refraction

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The atmosphere

• Composition of the atmosphere
• Earth’s early atmosphere
• Greenhouse effect
• Climate change
• Carbon footprint
• Atmospheric pollutants

Ecology

• Adaptations ad interdependence
• Abiotic and biotic factors
• Organisation of ecosystems
• Biodiversity
• Effects of human interactions of ecosystems

Using resources

• Earth’s resources
• Sustainability
• Potable water
• Waste water treatment
• Extracting metals
• Life cycle assessments and recycling
• Corrosion
• Alloys

Magnetism and electromagnetism

• Permanent and induced magnetism
• Magnetic fields
• Electromagnetism

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