Science Understanding
Year 7
Biological Sciences:
Use models, including food webs, to represent matter and energy flow in ecosystems and predict the impact of changing abiotic and biotic factors on populations (AC9S7U02)
Geography: Water in the World
Classification of environmental resources and the way that water connects and changes places as it moves through environments (AC9HG7K01)
Year 8
Chemical Sciences:
Use particle theory to describe the arrangement of particles in a substance, including the motion of and attraction between particles, and relate this to the properties of the substance (AC9S7U05)
Physical Sciences:
Classify different types of energy as kinetic or potential and investigate energy transfer and transformations in simple systems (AC9S8U05)
Year 9
Earth and Space Sciences:
Represent the carbon cycle and examine how key processes including combustion, photosynthesis and respiration rely on interactions between Earth’s spheres (the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere) (AC9S9U03)
Physical Sciences:
Apply the law of conservation of energy to analyse system efficiency in terms of energy inputs, outputs, transfers and transformations (AC9S9U05)
Year 10
Earth and Space Sciences:
Use models of energy flow between the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere to explain patterns of global climate change (AC9S10U04)