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Year 11 Science Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration
- Aerobic cellular respiration in humans and other organisms Study Guide
- Aerobic cellular respiration in humans and other organisms, including ATP Study Guide
- Anaerobic cellular respiration in humans and other organisms Study Guide
- Anaerobic cellular respiration in humans and other organisms, including ATP Study Guide
- Explaining the effect of different substrates on the rate of cellular respiration Study Guide
- Explaining the effect of temperature on the rate of cellular respiration Study Guide
- The effect of different substrates on cellular respiration in yeast: practical Study Guide
- The effect of temperature on cellular respiration in small organisms: practical Study Guide
Atmosphere and changing climate
- Acid rain and chemical weathering Study Guide
- Atmospheric pollutants Study Guide
- Burning hydrocarbons Study Guide
- Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere Study Guide
- Earth's atmosphere Study Guide
- Earth's atmosphere (approximate values) Study Guide
- Evolution of Earth's atmosphere Study Guide
- Global climate change and the effects Study Guide
- Greenhouse gases Study Guide
- Human activity and climate change Study Guide
- Ozone layer: a story of global success Study Guide
Chemical analysis
- Chemical tests: aqueous ions Study Guide
- Chemical tests: aqueous ions (including magnesium) Study Guide
- Chemical tests: aqueous ions (including zinc) Study Guide
- Identifying unknown substances (including barium) Study Guide
- Identifying unknown substances (including magnesium) Study Guide
- Identifying unknown substances (including zinc) Study Guide
- Instrumental analysis and flame tests: crimson for lithium Study Guide
- Instrumental analysis and flame tests: including barium Study Guide
- Instrumental analysis and flame tests: red for lithium Study Guide
- Ionic equations: aqueous ion tests Study Guide
- Mass spectrometry Study Guide
Classification in modern biology
- Classification and reclassification: genetic evidence Study Guide
- Classification into kingdoms and domains: sub-cellular evidence Study Guide
- Classifying organisms as eukaryotic or prokaryotic Study Guide
- Electron microscopy, and the size and scale of cells Study Guide
- Electron microscopy, and the size and scale of cells: including standard form Study Guide
Coordination and control: maintaining a constant internal environment
- Controlling water balance: the kidneys, and nephron structure Study Guide
- Controlling water balance: the kidneys, and treating kidney failure Study Guide
- Controlling water balance: the kidneys, nephron structure and kidney failure Study Guide
- Effect of osmosis and sugar concentration on the mass of plant tissue: analysis Study Guide
- Effect of osmosis and sugar concentration on the mass of plant tissue: practical Study Guide
- The importance of maintaining constant conditions in the body Study Guide
- The importance of maintaining constant conditions in the body, including osmosis Study Guide
- The role of the nervous system in thermoregulation Study Guide
- The role of the skin in thermoregulation Study Guide
- The roles of the nervous and endocrine systems in controlling water balance Study Guide
- Using a microscope to observe effects of osmosis in plant cells: practical Study Guide
Defences against pathogens, the human immune system and vaccination
- Evaluating the global use of vaccination Study Guide
- Immunity and vaccination Study Guide
- Light microscopy: observing and identifying microorganisms Study Guide
- Non-specific defences of the human body against pathogens Study Guide
- Plant defences against disease Study Guide
- Plant defences, and identifying plant diseases Study Guide
- Responses of the human immune system to specific pathogens Study Guide
Electrolysis
- Electric cells and batteries Study Guide
- Electrolysis of aqueous solutions Study Guide
- Electrolysis of molten salts Study Guide
- Electrolysis: aqueous solutions practical Study Guide
- Electrolysis: brine Study Guide
- Electrolysis: extracting aluminium Study Guide
- Electrolysis: purifying copper Study Guide
- Fuel cells Study Guide
- Half equations: electrolysis Study Guide
- Principles of electrolysis Study Guide
Electromagnetic waves
- Absorbing infrared radiation practical Study Guide
- Converging lenses Study Guide
- Convex lenses Study Guide
- Convex lenses (including magnification) Study Guide
- Dispersion of light and electromagnetic radiation Study Guide
- Dispersion of light and electromagnetic waves Study Guide
- Emitters of infrared & black body radiation Study Guide
- Emitting infrared and black body radiation Study Guide
- Emitting infrared radiation Study Guide
- Ionising electromagnetic radiation Study Guide
- Light and colour Study Guide
- Non-ionising electromagnetic radiation Study Guide
- Non-ionising electromagnetic radiations Study Guide
- Reflection of light Study Guide
- Reflection of light (including specular and diffuse) Study Guide
- Refraction through a rectangular block Study Guide
- Refraction through a rectangular block (including wave front diagrams) Study Guide
- Refraction through a semicircular block Study Guide
- Refraction through a semicircular block (including TIR) Study Guide
- Scale diagrams for converging lenses Study Guide
- Scale diagrams for convex lenses Study Guide
- Scale diagrams for convex lenses (including magnification) Study Guide
- The spectrum of electromagnetic radiation Study Guide
- The spectrum of electromagnetic waves Study Guide
- Virtual images from converging and diverging lenses Study Guide
- Virtual images from convex and concave lenses Study Guide
- Virtual images from convex and concave lenses (including magnification) Study Guide
Electromagnetism
- An electric motor Study Guide
- An electromagnet Study Guide
- Applications of electromagnets Study Guide
- Applications of motor and generator effects Study Guide
- Electric generators Study Guide
- Plotting magnetic fields Study Guide
- Strength of an electromagnet Study Guide
- The generator effect Study Guide
- The motor effect Study Guide
Forces make things change
- Balancing Study Guide
- Changing momentum Study Guide
- Conservation of momentum Study Guide
- Force, mass and acceleration (a = (v – u)/t) Study Guide
- Force, mass and acceleration (a = Δv/t) Study Guide
- Forces in two dimensions Study Guide
- Forces in two dimensions (including resolution of a force) Study Guide
- Moments, levers and gears Study Guide
- Newton's Second Law Study Guide
- Newton's Second Law (including inertia) Study Guide
- Newton's Third Law Study Guide
- Newton's Third Law (with free body diagrams in 2D) Study Guide
- Resultant forces and their effects Study Guide
- Stopping Study Guide
- Stopping (and estimating stopping distances) Study Guide
- Stopping safely Study Guide
- Terminal velocity Study Guide
- Terminal velocity (including graphical representation) Study Guide
Gene technology
Gravity in space
Groups of the periodic table
- Ionic equations: reactions of Group 1 and Group 7 Study Guide
- Properties of Group 0 Study Guide
- Properties of Group 0 (RAM 1 d.p.) Study Guide
- Properties of Group 1 Study Guide
- Properties of Group 1 (RAM 1 d.p.) Study Guide
- Properties of Group 7 Study Guide
- Properties of Group 7 (RAM 1 d.p.) Study Guide
- Reactions of the halogens: including displacement practical Study Guide
Hormones and human reproduction
Industrial chemistry
- Ammonia: NPK fertiliser production and other applications Study Guide
- Chemical equilibrium Study Guide
- Comparing materials and their properties Study Guide
- Corrosion and its prevention Study Guide
- Corrosion and its prevention: including half equations Study Guide
- Equilibrium: balance between rate, safety, environment and economics Study Guide
- Factors affecting equilibrium Study Guide
- Industrial equilibria: Contact Process Study Guide
- Industrial equilibria: Haber Process Study Guide
- Introduction to reversible chemical reactions Study Guide
- Making ammonia Study Guide
- NPK fertilisers, agriculture and other applications Study Guide
- Percentage yield and atom economy Study Guide
- Percentage yield and atom economy (RAM 1 d.p.) Study Guide
- Transition metals Study Guide
- Transition metals: physical and chemical properties Study Guide
- Transition metals: properties and uses Study Guide
Mains electricity
- Calculating with electric charge Study Guide
- Calculating with electric charge: including complex calculations Study Guide
- Danger from electric shock Study Guide
- Energy resources Study Guide
- Power of an appliance or electric circuit Study Guide
- Short circuits and earth wires Study Guide
- The National Grid Study Guide
- Transformers Study Guide
Maintaining biodiversity and human impacts
- Benefits and challenges of maintaining biodiversity Study Guide
- Climate change and biodiversity: changes in the distribution of organisms Study Guide
- Climate change and biodiversity: forests and oceans Study Guide
- Examples of human interactions with ecosystems, including fish farming Study Guide
- Examples of human interactions with ecosystems, including use of peat Study Guide
- Factors affecting human food security, and possible solutions Study Guide
- Negative human interactions with ecosystems and impacts on biodiversity Study Guide
- Transfers of biomass between trophic levels Study Guide
Medicines and new treatments for disease
Nuclear physics
- Activity and half-life calculations Study Guide
- Activity and half-life calculations (including complex ones) Study Guide
- Evidence of atomic structure Study Guide
- Ionising radiation Study Guide
- Nuclear decay Study Guide
- Nuclear decay (including beta–plus) Study Guide
- Nuclear fission and fusion Study Guide
- Nuclear power Study Guide
- Nuclear power stations Study Guide
- Radioactive half-life Study Guide
- Unstable nuclei Study Guide
- Uses of radiation Study Guide
Organic chemistry
- Addition polymerisation Study Guide
- Alcohols Study Guide
- Alkenes Study Guide
- Carboxylic acids and esters Study Guide
- Chemical tests involving alkanes, alkenes and alcohols Study Guide
- Combustion of alcohols: planning Study Guide
- Combustion of alcohols: practical Study Guide
- Condensation polymerisation Study Guide
- Natural polymers Study Guide
- Polymer properties and problems Study Guide
Photosynthesis: factors affecting the rate
- Climate change and photosynthesis Study Guide
- Factors affecting the rate of photosynthesis Study Guide
- Light intensity and the inverse square law Study Guide
- Photosynthesis and limiting factors Study Guide
- The effect of light intensity on rate of photosynthesis in algae: evaluation Study Guide
- The effect of light intensity on rate of photosynthesis in algae: plan Study Guide
- The effect of light intensity on rate of photosynthesis in algae: practical Study Guide
- The effect of light intensity on rate of photosynthesis in pondweed: evaluation Study Guide
- The effect of light intensity on rate of photosynthesis in pondweed: plan Study Guide
- The effect of light intensity on rate of photosynthesis in pondweed: practical Study Guide
Plant growth and development
Rate of reaction
- Appropriate equipment for measuring the rate of a reaction Study Guide
- Catalysts and rate Study Guide
- Collision theory Study Guide
- Concentration and rate: analysis Study Guide
- Concentration and rate: practical using end point method Study Guide
- Concentration and rate: practical using gas collection method Study Guide
- Evaluating methods for measuring the rate of reaction Study Guide
- Surface area and rate: analysis Study Guide
- Surface area and rate: practical Study Guide
- Temperature and rate: practical Study Guide
- The rate of a chemical reaction: including graphs Study Guide
Transport and exchange surfaces in plants
- Observing root hair cells using a light microscope: practical Study Guide
- Observing the structure and distribution of stomata: practical Study Guide
- Observing xylem and phloem using a light microscope: practical Study Guide
- Plant roots are adapted to absorb water and mineral ions Study Guide
- The effect of light on water uptake by a plant: practical Study Guide
- The effects of environmental factors on the rate of water uptake by a plant Study Guide
- The importance of exchange surfaces and transport systems in plants Study Guide
- Transport systems in plants: phloem and translocation Study Guide
- Transport systems in plants: xylem and transpiration Study Guide
Using Earth's resources
- Alternative methods of extracting metals: phytoextraction and bioleaching Study Guide
- Alternative methods of extracting metals: phytomining and bioleaching Study Guide
- Cracking fractions of crude oil Study Guide
- Developing a reactivity series for metals Study Guide
- Earth's resources and sustainable development Study Guide
- Extraction of metals by reduction Study Guide
- Fractional distillation of crude oil Study Guide
- Life cycle assessments (LCAs) Study Guide
- Polymer structures Study Guide
- Redox reactions Study Guide