Summary Revision Checklist GCSE Combined Science Higher Tier AQA

Revision Checklist: GCSE AQA Combined Science: Trilogy (Higher Tier)

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Rate topics 1 to 5 f. Metabolism
1. CELL BIOLOGY
a. Eukaryotes & prokaryotes
b. Animal & plant cells Rate topics 1 to 5
c. Cell specialisation
5. HOMEOSTASIS &
d. Microscopy RESPONSE
e. The cell cycle a. Homeostasis
f. Stem cells b. The reflex arc
g. Diffusion c. The endocrine system
h. Exchange surfaces d. Blood glucose control
i. Osmosis e. Diabetes
j. Active transport f. Hormones in reproduction
g. The menstrual cycle
h. Contraception
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2. ORGANISATION i. Treating infertility
a. Cells, tissues, organs & systems j. Thyroxine & adrenaline
b. Enzymes
c. Human digestive system
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d. The lungs 6. INHERITANCE,
e. The heart VARIATION & EVOLUTION
f. Blood vessels a. Sexual & asexual reproduction
g. Blood b. Meiosis
h. Coronary heart disease c. DNA structure
i. Health & disease d. The genome
j. Risk factors for non- e. Alleles & inheritance
communicable diseases f. Inherited disorders
k. Cancer g. Sex determination
l. Plant tissues h. Variation
m. Transpiration & translocation i. Selective breeding
n. Adaptations of plant cells j. Genetic engineering
o. Rate of transpiration k. Cloning
l. The theory of evolution
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m. Speciation
3. INFECTION & n. Fossils
RESPONSE o. Extinction
a. Communicable diseases p. Antibiotic resistant bacteria
b. Viral diseases q. Classification of organisms
c. Bacterial diseases
d. Fungal diseases
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e. Protist diseases 7. ECOLOGY
f. Human defence systems a. Communities & interdependence
g. Vaccination b. Abiotic & biotic factors
h. Antibiotics & painkillers c. Adaptations
i. Discovery of drugs d. Food chains & webs
j. Drug tests & trials e. Predator-prey cycles
f. Carbon & water cycle
g. Biodiversity
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4. BIOENERGETICS h. Waste management
a. Photosynthesis i. Land use & deforestation
b. Rate of photosynthesis j. Global warming
c. Uses of glucose k. Maintaining biodiversity
d. Aerobic & anaerobic respiration
e. Body’s response to exercise
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, Rate topics 1 to 5 e. Reacting acids with metals
8. ATOMIC STRUCTURE &
f. Neutralisation of acids & naming
THE PERIODIC TABLE
salts
a. Elements, compounds &
g. pH
mixtures
h. Strong & weak acids
b. Separating mixtures
i. Electrolysis of molten ionic
c. Development of atomic model
compounds
d. Mass & atomic number
j. Electrolysis of aqueous solutions
e. Relative atomic mass
f. Electronic structure
g. Groups & periods 12. ENERGY CHANGES Rate topics 1 to 5
h. Development of periodic table a. Exothermic & endothermic
i. Metals & non-metals reactions
j. Group 0 elements b. Reaction profiles
k. Group 1 elements c. Calculating energy change of
l. Group 7 elements reactions

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9. BONDING, STRUCTURE 13. THE RATE & EXTENT Rate topics 1 to 5
& THE PROPERTIES OF OF CHEMICAL CHANGE
MATTER a. Calculating rate of reaction
a. Ionic bonding b. Factors affecting rate of reaction
b. Covalent bonding c. Collision theory & activation
c. Dot & cross diagrams energy
d. Metallic bonding d. Catalysts
e. States of matter e. Reversible reactions
f. Properties of ionic compounds f. Le Chatelier’s principle
g. Properties of small molecules g. Factors which affect equilibrium
h. Polymers & giant covalent
structures
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i. Properties of metals 14. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
j. Alloys a. Crude oil
k. Diamond & graphite b. Alkanes
l. Graphene & fullerenes c. Fractional distillation
d. Properties of hydrocarbons
e. Combustion reactions
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10. QUANTITATIVE f. Alkenes
CHEMISTRY g. Addition reactions
a. Balancing chemical equations h. Cracking
b. Conservation of mass
c. Relative formula mass Rate topics 1 to 5
d. Percentage by mass 15. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
e. Estimating uncertainty a. Purity
f. Moles b. Formulations
g. Using moles to calculate masses c. Paper chromatography
h. Using moles to balance d. Tests for common gases
equations
i. Limiting reactants Rate topics 1 to 5
j. Concentration 16. CHEMISTRY OF THE
ATMOSPHERE
a. Composition of Earth’s
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11. CHEMICAL CHANGES atmosphere
a. The reactivity series b. Evolution of Earth’s atmosphere
b. Reduction & oxidation c. The greenhouse effect
c. Extracting metals by reduction d. Human activity & greenhouse
d. Ionic & half equations gases

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