Contents Introduction 4 1 Plants
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1.1 Floating discs experiment 1.2 Van Helmont’s experiment 1.3 The life cycle of a flowering plant
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2 Living things in their environment
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2.1 Investigating algae on a tree trunk 2.2 Arctic hares 2.3 Predator and prey populations
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3 Variation and inheritance 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4
Constructing a key The world’s most famous sheep Breeding goats in Ethiopia Bringing Darwin up to date
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7 Salts 7.1 Investigating concentration 7.2 Salts, alkalis and equations 7.3 Mystery substances 8 Rates of reaction 8.1 Magnesium and hydrochloric acid 8.2 Which results are which? 8.3 As fast as possible 9 Forces in action 9.1 Density problems 9.2 Applying pressure 9.3 The effect of moments 10 Electricity
4 Material properties 4.1 What do the numbers tell you? 4.2 Atomic structure and trends 4.3 Comparing the trends in Groups 1 and 7 5 Energy changes 5.1 Exothermic reactions with metals 5.2 Dissolving potassium chloride 5.3 Using exothermic and endothermic reactions 6 Reactivity 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4
How reactive are these metals? Which metal? Displacing metals Making use of displacement reactions
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10.1 Charge 10.2 Current in circuits 10.3 Different types of circuit 11 Energy 11.1 Energy and fuel 11.2 Conduction 11.3 Investigating heat loss 11.4 Investigating radiation 11.5 Investigating evaporation
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