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 Biology 1 – Influences on life
Topic 1 – Classification, Variation and
Inheritance

Keyword Definition
Adaptation
Binomial
Characteristics
Chordata
Classification
Conservation
Continuous
Discontinuous
Dominant
Environmental
Evolution
Extreme
Fertile offspring
Fertilisation
Fungi
 Hybridisation
Hybrids
Inheritance
Isolation
Journals
Mutation
Nucleus
Recessive
Reproduction
Species
Thermoregulation
Unicellular
Variation
Vertebrates
Viruses
 Topic 2 Responses to a changing
environment
Keyword Definition
Blood vessels
Brain
Diet
Electrical impulses
Elongation
Endocrine
Fruit ripening
Glands
Glycogen
Growth
Hair
Hormones
Hypothalamus
Insulin
Internal
Liver
Mechanisms
Motor
 Negative
feedback
Nerve
Neurones
Obesity
Organs
Plant
Receptors
Regulation
Relay
Resistant
Responses
Rooting powder
Seedless fruit
Sensory
Skin
Spinal cord
Stimuli
Sweat
Temperature
Weedkillers
 Topic 3 Problems of and solutions to a
changing environment
Keyword Definition
Addiction
Ammonia
Animal
Antifungals
Antiseptics
Aquatic
Behaviour
Brain
Caffeine
Carcinogen
Chemical
Cigarette
Cilia
Depressants
Diseases
Drug
Dysentery
Environment
 Fleas
Fluids
Fungus
Impulses
Indicator
Infection
Infectious
Influenza
Lice
Lightning
Liver cirrhosis
Mucus
Nicotine
Obese
Painkillers
Pathogens
Perception
Photosynthesis
Physical barriers
Pollutants
Psychological
 Resistant
Respiration
Skin
Species
Spread
Stimulants
Tar
Tears
Transplants
Urea
Vectors
Virus
 Chemistry 1 – Chemistry in
our world
Topic 1 The Earth’s sea and atmosphere
Keyword Definition
Atmosphere
Deforestation
Dissolution
Earth
Farming
Fossil fuels
Gases
Human activity
Marine
Organisms
Oxygen
Photosynthesis
Plants
Sea
Volcanic
Water
 Topic 2 Materials from the Earth

Keyword Definition
Atoms
Chalk
Change
Chemical
reactions
Commercial
Compaction
Concrete
Cooling
Crust
Crystals
Decomposition
Earth
Economic
Environmental
Erosion
Fossils
Glass
 Granite
Heat
Igneous
Lava
Layers
Limestone
Magma
Marble
Materials
Metamorphic
Pressure
Quarrying
Raw material
Reactants
Rearrangement
Sediment
Sedimentary
Social
Solidification
Thermal
 Topic 3 Acids

Keyword Definition
Acids
Bacteria
Bleach
Chemical test
Compounds
Decomposes
Digestion
Electrical Energy
Hazards
Indigestion
Large-scale
manufacture
Neutralise
Salts
Sea water
Stomach
Toxic Gas
 Topic 4 Obtaining and using metals

Keyword Definition
Alloys
Corrosion
Cost
Crust
Earth
Economic
Elements
Environment
Extraction
Fineness
Memory
Metals
Obtain
Ores
Properties
Raw materials
Reactivity
 Recycling
Reduction
Resistance
Series
Strength
Uncombined
Unreactive

Topic 5 Fuels
Keyword Definition
Acid rain
Ash
Atoms
Biodegradable
Biofuels
Boiling points
Bonded
Climate change
Combustion
Complex
 Compounds
Correlation
Crops
Demand
Disposal
Energy
Formulae
Fossil fuels
Fractions
Fuels
Gases
Global
temperature
Ignition
Impurities
Landfill
Mixture
Molecules
Natural
Non-renewable
Petrol
 Recycling
Renewable
Saturated
Separation
Smoke
Structures
Toxic gas
Transport
Trap
Unsaturated
Viscosity
Water
 Physics 1 – Universal Physics
Topic 1 Visible light and the solar system

Keyword Definition
Amplitude
Converse
Direction
Distant
Electromagnetic
Eye
Frequency
Length
Lens
Light
Longitudinal
Magnification
Magnify
Materials
Measure
Models
 Object
Observations
Photography
Planets
Reflected
Reflecting
Refracted
Seismic
Speed
Structure
Telescope
Transfer
Transverse
Universe
Visible
Wave
Wavelength
 Topic 2 The electromagnetic spectrum

Keyword Definition
Cancer
Continuous
Danger
Electromagnetic
Energy
Frequency
Harmful
Infrared
Ionising
Microwaves
Mutation
Particles
Radiation
Radioactive
Skin
Sources
Speed
 Transfer
Transverse
Ultraviolet
Visible
X-rays

Topic 3 Waves and the Universe

Keyword Definition
Atmosphere
Background
Black hole
Cycle
Data
Distances
Earth
Electromagnetic
Evidence
Evolution
Galaxy
 Gravity
Intelligence
Life
Magnification
Mass
Method
Modern
Moon
Planets
Relative
Size
Solar System
Spectrum
Sun
Telescope
Theory
Universe
 Topic 4 Waves and the Earth

Keyword Definition
Calculate
Communication
Convection
Core
Crust
Currents
Depth
Detection
Distance
Earthquakes
Frequency
Hertz
Infrasound
Longitudinal
Mantle
Meteors
 Movement
Plates
Reflection
Refraction
Scan
Seismic
Seismometers
Sound
Tectonic
Time
Transverse
Ultrasound
Velocity
Volcanic
 Topic 5 Generation and transmission of
electricity
Keyword Definition
Advantages
Alternate
Appliances
Charge
Coil
Current
Difference
Direct
Disadvantages
Efficiency
Electricity
Equation
Flow
Generate
Generation
Hazards
Heat
Induced
 Magnet
Measure
National
Non-renewable
Potential
Power
Production
Rate
Renewable
Resources
Scale
Transformer
Transmission
Voltage
Wire
 Topic 6 Energy and the future
Keyword Definition
Chain
Chemical
Conserved
Constant
Diagrams
Efficiency
Elastic
Electrical
Energy
Gravitational
Heat
Kinetic
Light
Movement
Nuclear
Potential
Proportion
Sound
Thermal
Transfer
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