Year 10 skills

Physics

Measurements and units

1. Standard form
2. SI units
3. Order of magnitude
4. Density

Motion

1. Speed and acceleration
2. Forces
3. Hooke's law
4. The gravitational force
5. Newton's first law of motion

Work, energy and power

1. Work done to move an object
2. Power

Biology

The cell

1. Under the microscope
2. Types of cells - prokaryotic and eukaryotic
3. The plasma membrane
4. The organelles

Cellular respiration

1. General concepts
2. ATP
3. Enzymes in cellular respiration
4. Glycolysis
5. Krebs cycle
6. Aerobic and anaerobic respiration

Transport across the plasma membrane

1. Passive and active transport

The cell cycle

1. Binary cell division
2. Apoptosis

Inheritance and diversity

1. Genes, alleles and genomes
2. Chromosome types and structures
3. Chromosome functions
4. Sex chromosomes
5. Meiosis

Chemistry

Atoms

1. Structure of the atom
2. Protons, neutrons and electrons
3. Radioactivity

The periodic table

1. Electronic configuration
2. Positions of atoms in the periodic table
3. Metal reactivity

Chemical reactions

1. Rearrangement of atoms
2. Types of chemical reactions
3. Understanding chemical reactions
4. Balance chemical reaction equations
5. Oxidation and reduction reactions