All Science GCSE - Paper 1 notes

All 3 sciences Paper 1 GCSE Physics Triple AQA (Separate science) notes for this course, it will also be helpful to anyone studying the other exam boards too. This is £1.40 cheaper than buying all of these topics individually. Contents.. its a lot:

Biology

Cell Structure and Transport

• The world of the microscope
• Animal and Plant cells
• Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells
• Specialisation in animal cells
• Diffusion
• Osmosis
• Active Transport

Cell Division

• Cell Division
• Stem Cells
• Stem Cells dilemmas

Communicable Diseases and Preventing Disease:

Communicable Diseases

• Health and Disease
• Pathogens and Disease
• Growing bacteria in the lab
• Preventing bacterial growth
• Preventing infections
• Viral diseases
• Bacterial diseases
• Disease caused by fungal and protists
• Human defence responses
• More about plant diseases
• Plant defence systems

Preventing and treating disease

• Vaccination
• Antibiotics and painkillers
• Discovering drugs
• Developing drugs
• Making monoclonal antibodies
• Uses of monoclonal antibodies

Photosynthesis and Respiration

Photosynthesis

• Photosynthesis
• The rate of photosynthesis
• How plants use glucose
• Making the most of photosynthesis

Respiration

• Aerobic respiration
• The response to exercise
• Anaerobic respiration
• Metabolism and the liver

Organisation and the Digestive system

• Tissues and organs
• Catalysts and enzymes
• Factors that affect enzyme activity
• The Digestive system
• The Chemistry of food
• Food Tests

Organising Animals and Plants

• The blood
• Blood vessels
• The heart
• Problems with the heart
• Transpiration and Translocation

Practicals

• Microscopes
• Effect of different concentrations of salt solution on the mass of plant tissue
• Food tests
• pH on rate of reaction of amalyse
• Light intensity for photosynthesis
• Reaction time
• Plant responses
• Field investigations
• Effect on antiseptic on bacterial growth
• Temperature on rate of decay of milk

6 markers

• Menstrual cycle hormones
• Process of IVF
• Reflex actions
• Vaccinations
• Stages of testing
• Growing and investigating bacteria in the lab
• Monoclonal antibodies
• Meiosis
• How natural selection works
• Adult cell cloning
• Embryo transplant cloning

Chemistry

Atomic Structure

• Atoms
• Separating Mixtures
• Fractional Distillation and Chromatography
• History of the Atom
• Structure of the Atom
• Ions, atoms and isotopes
• Electronic Structure

The Periodic table

• The development of the periodic table
• Metals and non-metals
• Group 1 elements
• Group 7 and 0 elements
• Transition metals

Structure and bonding

• States of Matter
• Changes in state
• Ions
• Ionic compounds
• Simple molecular substances
• Giant covalent structures
• Diamond and Graphite
• Graphene and fullerenes
• Giant metallic structures
• Nanoparticles
• Covalent bonding
• Ionic bonding

Chemical calculations

• Relative masses and moles
• Equations and calculations
• From masses to balanced equations
• The yield of a chemical reaction
• Atom economy
• Expressing concentrations
• Titrations
• Titration calculations

Electrolysis

• Introduction to electrolysis
• Changes at the electrodes
• The extraction of aluminium
• Electrolysis of aqueous solutions

Energy changes

• Exothermic and endothermic reaction
• Reaction profiles
• Bond energy calculations
• Chemical cells and batteries
• Fuel cells

6 markers and practicals

• Making salts
• Titrations
• Electrolysis (x2)
• Temperature changes
• Rate of reaction
• Chromatography
• Identifying unknown compounds
• Flame test
• Purify and test water

Physics

Conversation and dissipation of energy

• Changes in energy stores
• Conservation of energy
• Energy and work
• Gravitational potential energy stores
• Kinetic energy and elastic energy stores
• Energy dissipation
• Energy and efficiency
• Electrical appliances
• Energy and power

Energy transfer by heating

• Energy transfer by conduction
• Infrared radiation
• More about infrared radiation
• Specific heat capacity
• Heating and insulating buildings

Energy resources

• Energy demands
• Energy from wind and water
• Power from the Sun and the Earth
• Energy and the Environment
• Big energy issues

Electrical circuits

• Electrical charges and fields
• Current and charge
• Potential difference and resistance
• Component characteristics
• Series circuits
• Parallel circuits

Electricity in the home

• Alternating current
• Cables and plugs
• Electrical power and potential difference
• Electrical currents and energy transfer
• Appliances and efficiency

Molecules and matter

• Density
• Density required practical - 6 marker
• States of matter
• Changes of state
• Internal energy
• Specific latent heat
• Gas pressure and temperature
• Gas pressure and volume

Practicals

• Specific heat capacity
• Thermal insulation
• Resistance
• I-V characteristics
• Density of irregular object and regular object
• Force and extension
• Acceleration
• Waves
• Radiation and absorbtion
• Light

6 markers

• Nuclear fusion
• Nuclear fission
• Radioactive tracers
• The risk from internal contamination of alpha radiation
• The life cycle of a star

(Please note that these are ALL of the Science 6 markers and practicals, I have not separated them into Paper 1 and Paper 2.)