Success in Science 4

The Success in Science books provide a comprehensive coverage of the New South Wales Board of Studies Science Years 7–10 Syllabus. The series as a whole will address all of the core outcomes of that syllabus. However, science programs are broadly similar across the world. The series should also be useful beyond New South Wales.

Success in Science 4 deals with a number of the outcomes specified for Stage 5 in the syllabus and would be used in Years 9 or 10.

We wrote the Success in Science series for 'out of class' learning.

Table of Contents

• Preamble
• 1 Introduction
  
  • How to use this book
  • Syllabus programs, lessons, tests, reports
• 2 What is this 'science' thing?
• 3 What sorts of things do we need to know about?
• 4 Language in science
  
  • Writing answers to science questions
  • Questions that ask you to distinguish, contrast or compare
  • Questions that ask you to explain
  • Questions that ask you to evaluate
• 5 Elements and compounds
  
  • Atomic theory
  • The Periodic Table
  • Trends in the Periodic Table
  • Compounds and reactions
  • Classifying ionic compounds
  • How do elements combine?
  • Combining theory with writing chemical formulae
  • Naming organic compounds
  • Some common compounds and reactions
  • Writing word equations from descriptions
  • Balanced chemical equations
• 6 Technology
  
  • The uses of electromagnetic waves
  • Uses of nuclear energy
  • Biotechnology
  • Other made resources
• 7 Living structure and function
  
  • Living things are made of cells
  • Types of cell division
  • DNA programs cells
  • DNA copies itself
  • DNA copies when cells reproduce
  • Mendel: an operational explanation for heredity
  • Applying Mendel
  • DNA holds genetic information
  • Evolution by natural selection
  • Darwin's evolutionary model
  • Competition and change
  • Types of evolution
  • Where does that leave us?
  • Co-ordination, defence and reproduction
  • Nerves
  • Hormones
  • Defending ourselves against disease
  • Non-infectious diseases
  • Responding to disease
  • Making new people
  • Co-ordinating reproduction
  • Birth control
• 8 Answers
• 9 Index and Glossary
• 10 Periodic Table of the Elements