C2g Fertilisers and Crop Yields

You need to be able to:

• Explain how fertilisers increase crop yield (elements required, how fertiliser gets from bag to plant, what the essential elements do)
• Explain the pros and cons of using fertilisers (including eutrophication)
• Explain how to make a named fertiliser (reactants required, detailed lab procedure, word equation, balanced symbol equation)

2. Bitesize notes on fertilisers
3. Eutrophication site with cartoon explanation
4. Experimental procedure and diagram for making a fertiliser

C2f Acids and Bases

You need to be able to:

• Explain how neutralisation occurs (lab procedure, indicator sudden change, ions present, ways to neutral)
• Construct word and balanced symbol equations for the neutralisation of acids by metal oxides, metal hydroxides and metal carbonates

2. Neutralisation interactive (flash required)
3. High level neutralisation animation (flash required)
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6. BBC Bitesize - How to name salts

 

C2e Manufacturing Chemicals: Making Ammonia

You need to be able to:

• Describe how ammonia is made in the Haber Process utilising balanced symol equations
• Explain the conditions used in the Haber process in relation to the reversible reaction and to economic considerations
• Explain why producing ammonia is important

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3. Make sure you can interpret graphs....
4. Why ammonia is important....

C2d Making Cars

You need to be able to:

• Explain rusting using balanced symbol equations, and descriptions of ideal conditions
• Evaluate the use of aluminium, steel and other materials in the manufacture of cars
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of recycling materials used to make cars

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4. Iron vs Aluminium notes from BBC Bitesize
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C2c Metals and Alloys

You need to be able to:

• Explain the extraction and purification of copper using balanced symbol equations and half equations
• Evaluate the use of metals and/or alloys for a particular use (e.g. amalgam, brass, solder, bronze, steel)
• Explain how smart alloys can be used

1. Notes on electrolysis from BBC Bitesize
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3. Another chemistry blog with notes on electrolysis
4. Practical purification of Cu...
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6. Alloys notes from BBC Bitesize 
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C2b Construction Materials

You need to be able to:

• Explain the formation, properties and uses of marble, granite and limestone
• Construct a balanced symbol equation for the decomposition of limestone
• Compare and contrast the manufacture and properties of cement, concrete and reinforced concrete

2. Lots of notes and web links on rock types and rock cycle
3. Thermal decomposition of limestone notes from the BBC
4.  Notes from Doc Brown
5. Class clips on concrete from the BBC
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C2a The Structure of the Earth

You need to be able to:

• Describe the properties of the layers of the Earth and the problems in studying it (lithosphere, crust, mantle, core)
• Describe the development and the theory of plate tectonics
• Describe the action of volcanoes (types of eruption linked to magma composition, tyoes of rocks formed from different types of lava and different cooling rates, why people live near them, why geologists study volcanoes, how geologists predict eruptions)

1. Lots of visualisations - scroll down to "chapter 8 plate tectonics"
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3.  Wegener's Theory - notes from BBC Bitesize
4. Interactive map of active volcanoes
5. Information and videos on volcano types
6.  Composite vs shield volcano video
7. Lots of notes...
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