OCR Gateway Science
Topics
This section for students studying the current (2011 onwards) Science course. If you are studying the old (pre-2011) course, please visit the pre-2011 course index.
Biology
- Understanding organisms
- Fitness and health, human health and diet, staying healthy, the nervous system, drugs and you, staying in balance, controlling plant growth, variation and inheritance
- Understanding our environment
- Classification, energy flow, recycling, interdependence, adaptations, natural selection, population and pollution, sustainability
Chemistry
- Fundamental chemical concepts
- Fundamental chemical concepts
- Carbon chemistry
- Making crude oil useful, using carbon fuels, clean air, making polymers, designing polymers, cooking food and additives, smells, paints and pigments
- Chemical resources
- The structure of the Earth, construction materials, metals and alloys, making cars, making ammonia, acids and bases, fertilisers and crop yields, the chemistry of sodium chloride
Physics
- Energy for the home
- Heating houses, keeping homes warm, a spectrum of waves, light and lasers, cooking and communication using waves, data transmission, wireless signals, stable Earth
- Energy resources
- Collecting energy from the Sun, generating electricity, global warming, fuels for power, nuclear radiations, eploring our solar system, threats to the Earth, the Big Bang
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