Ecology Key Learning Outcomes (KLOs)

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* Recall and describe the characteristics of a living organism.

1.2 Describe the common features shown by eukaryotic

organisms: plants, animals, fungi, protoctists.

1.3 Describe the common features shown by prokaryotic organisms such as

bacteria.

4.1 understand the terms population, community, habitat and ecosystem.

4.2 practical: investigate the population size of an organism in two different

areas using quadrats.

* Understand the term biodiversity.

* describe the process of decomposition.

* Describe how one organism can affect another in a food chain or web.

4.5 Understand how abiotic and biotic factors affect the population size and
distribution of organisms.

4.6 understand the names given to different trophic levels, including

producers, primary, secondary and tertiary consumers and decomposers.

* Know that plants use carbon dioxide and water in the presence of light to
make glucose and oxygen. This process is called photosynthesis.

4.10 Describe the stages in the carbon cycle, including respiration,

photosynthesis, decomposition and combustion.

* know that fertilisers contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium

compounds that help plant growth.

4.16 Understand the biological consequences of pollution of water by

sewage.

4.17 Understand the biological consequences of eutrophication caused by

leached minerals from fertilisers.

* These are not IGCSE KLOs.

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* Energy is measured in joules (J).

*The less energy that a device wastes the more efficient it is.

4.2 describe energy transfers involving energy stores:

-energy stores: chemical, kinetic, gravitational, elastic, thermal,
magnetic, electrostatic, nuclear
-energy transfers: mechanically, electrically, by heating, by
radiation (light and sound)

4.4 know and use the relationship between efficiency, useful

energy output and total energy output.

4.5 describe a variety of everyday and scientific devices and

situations, explaining the transfer of the input energy in terms of
the above relationship, including their representation by Sankey
diagrams.

4.3 know and use the principle of conservation of energy.

4.13 know and use the relationship between gravitational

potential energy, mass, gravitational field strength and height.

4.14 know and use the relationship: KE = ½ x m x v2

4.11 know and use the relationship between work done, force and
distance moved in the direction of the force.

4.12 know that work done is equal to energy transferred.

4.16 describe power as the rate of transfer of energy or the rate

of doing work.

4.17 use the relationship between power, work done (energy

transferred) and time taken.

* Understand how fossil fuels can be used to generate electricity.

* Non-renewable energy sources are gone forever once they
have been used.

* Renewable energy sources can be used again and again.

* Know the advantages and disadvantages of using the following

energy sources; fossil fuels, nuclear, tidal, wind, hydroelectric,
solar, biomass and geothermal.

4.6 describe how thermal energy transfer may take place by

conduction, convection and radiation.

4.7 explain the role of convection in everyday phenomena.

4.8 explain how emission and absorption of radiation are related

to surface and temperature.

4.10 explain ways of reducing unwanted energy transfer, such as

insulation.

* These KLOs are not complete GCSE KLOs or are not GCSE KLOs.
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Know what fossil fuels are and the three types.

Know how fossil fuels are formed.

Know that crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons.

Know and use the terms atom, molecule, element, compound and
mixture correctly.

Understand what a chemical formula is and be able to state the

chemical formula of some common chemicals including water, carbon
dioxide and oxygen.

Understand how to use valency to deduce the chemical formula of a

compound containing a metal and a non-metal.

Know the general formula for alkanes.

Be able to draw the structural and displayed formula for alkanes with
up to 5 carbon atoms per molecule, and to name the unbranched
chain isomers.

Know the chemical formulas of the first 5 alkanes.

Know that a hydrocarbon is a compound containing only carbon and

hydrogen atoms.

To understand the meaning of the term ‘viscosity’.

To understand that the longer a molecule becomes the more viscous

it becomes.

To understand that boiling points increase as molecules get larger.

Understand that distillation can be used to separate a solution in
which the liquids have different boiling points.

To know the meaning of the words evaporation and condensation.

Understand that fractional distillation is a better method for

separating mixtures of liquids than distillation.

Describe how the industrial process of fractional distillation separates

crude oil into fractions.

Know the names and uses of the main fractions obtained from crude
oil: refinery gases, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, fuel oil and bitumen.

Know the trend in boiling points, viscosity and colour of the fractions
obtained from crude oil.

Know that a fuel is a substance that, when burned, releases heat

energy.

Know the possible products of complete and incomplete combustion

of hydrocarbons.

Be able to write chemical equations for simple chemical reactions.