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 * = **YEAR 9 SCIENCE - SEMESTER 1 ** ||
 * < __**Chemical Capers ( 7 weeks) **__

- Colourful chemistry Investigation
|| - nutrient cycles - measuring physical abiotic factors in an environment - ecology field work techniques of sampling populations - Changes to an ecosystem - human & natural impacts on Ecosystems. Habitat destruction. - Sustainability ||
 * __**Our Interdependent World ****(4 weeks) **__
 * **Exam Revision** ||
 * **Semester 1 Exam** ||
 * **World of Waves (first 3 weeks)** ||

- Electromagnetic Radiation - Wave motion - Sound waves <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Nature and behaviour of light <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Concave, convex mirror and lenses <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Refraction/Reflection <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Functions and parts of the eye <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">- Electromagnetic spectrum || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Nervous Control; nervous system <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Reflex actions and Stimulus Response model <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Chemical control; endocrine glands and hormones <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Homeostasis and the negative feedback system <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Metabolism; Anaerobic and aerobic respiration, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Action of Enzymes <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">- Interdependence of body systems || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Investigation of diseases <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Microorganisms and disease, bacteria and viruses, parasites <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- The Immune System <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">- Vaccination ||
 * = **YEAR 9 SCIENCE - SEMESTER 2** ||
 * __**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">World of Waves (7 weeks) **__
 * __**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Maintaining Control ( 6 weeks) **__
 * __**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Under Attack (4 weeks) **__
 * **Exam Revsion** ||
 * **Semester 2 Exam** ||