Download Year 11 Mock Topics Dec 2016

Year 11 Science Mock Topics- December 2016
The week beginning December 5th is mock examination week for Year 11. In Science you will have a
combined paper lasting 2 hours containing some Year 10 topics (Core) and some Year 11 topics
(Additional)
The paper will consist of biology, chemistry and physics questions.
The questions can come from the following topics
Physics
Core (Year 10)
Heat Transfer (This includes conduction,
convection, radiation, kinetic theory,
evaporation and condensation, specific
heat capacity, U values)
Additional (Year 11)
Forces (This includes resultant forces,
weight, Hooke’s law, Newton’s laws
including F=ma, terminal velocity,
stopping distances)
Using Energy (This includes energy
types, conservation of energy, efficiency
and Sankey diagrams)
Motion (This includes speed =
distance/time, distance-time graphs,
velocity, acceleration = change in
velocity/time taken, velocity-time
graphs)
Electrical Energy (This includes P= E/t,
efficiency and cost of electricity)
Electricity Generation (This includes
renewable and non-renewable generation,
how they work, what advantages and
disadvantages do they have,
environmental effects and the national
grid)
Waves (This includes transverse waves,
longitudinal waves, sound waves, wave
speed equation, reflection, refraction,
diffraction and the electromagnetic
spectrum)
Expanding Universe (This includes the
big bang theory, Doppler effect, red &
blue shift and CMBR)
Year 11 Science Mock Topics- December 2016
Biology
Core (Year 10)
Keeping Healthy (This includes diet and
exercise, defence against infectious
disease)
Nerves and Hormones (This includes
nervous system, control in the human
body, control in plants, )
Use and Abuse of Drugs (Drugs)
Interdependence and Adaptation (This
includes adaptation, environmental
change
Energy & Biomass in Food Chains (This
includes energy in biomass)
Waste Materials from Plants &
Animals) (This includes decay processes,
the carbon cycle
Genetic Variation and its Control (This
includes why organisms are different,
reproduction)
Evolution (This includes evolution)
Additional (Year 11)
Cells (This includes cells and cell
structure, dissolved substances –
diffusion, tissues, organs & organ
systems.)
Proteins (This includes enzymes)
Year 11 Science Mock Topics- December 2016
Chemistry
Core (year 10)
Additional (year 11)
Atomic Structure(This includes electron
shells and how this relates to the periodic
table)
Bonding (This includes the 3 types of bonding
and how this relates to the properties of
substances)
Using natural resources (This includes
limestone and metals and how they are
Rates of reaction( This includes how it is
measured, collision theory and graphs)
extracted and refined)
Crude oil and alkanes (This includes
fractional distillation, properties and
uses, environmental problems caused by
burning fuels)
Cracking of crude oil (This includes
alkenes, ethanol and making polymers)
Oils and emulsions ( This includes
extracting and purifying plant oils and
explaining emulsions)
Plate tectonics (This includes earth
structure and atmosphere)