Form 1 Biology — Term 3
By charlesphiri2020
Categories: Form 1 Biology
About Course
Explore how plants and animals respond to their environment, how organisms interact within ecosystems, and how waste management, soil composition, and soil fertility affect the environment.
What Will You Learn?
- 🌱 Explain different tropic responses in plants and the role of auxins.
- 🐜 Describe taxic responses in animals and their importance for survival.
- 🌍 Identify the components and relationships found within ecosystems.
- ♻️ Explain effective waste management practices and their importance to communities.
- 🌾 Describe soil composition, fertility, and methods of maintaining productive soils.
Course Content
Section 1: Coordination and Response
Topic 1: Coordination and Response in Plants
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Lesson 1 – Meaning of coordination and response
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Lesson 2 – Responses to environmental stimuli
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Lesson 3 – Tropic responses
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Lesson 4 – Importance of tropisms
Topic 2: Types of Tropic Responses
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Lesson 1 – Phototropism
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Lesson 2 – Geotropism
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Lesson 3 – Hydrotropism
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Lesson 4 – Chemotropism
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Lesson 5 – Examples of tropic responses
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Lesson 6 – Importance of different tropisms
Topic 3: The Role of Auxins in Tropisms
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Lesson 1 – Introduction to auxins
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Lesson 2 – Auxins and plant growth
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Lesson 3 – Role of auxins in phototropism
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Lesson 4 – Role of auxins in geotropism
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Lesson 5 – How auxins produce directional growth
Topic 4: Coordination and Response in Animals
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Lesson 1 – Meaning of taxic responses
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Lesson 2 – Taxic responses
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Lesson 3 – Responses to light
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Lesson 4 – Responses to chemicals
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Lesson 5 – Responses to gravity
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Lesson 6 – Relevance of taxic responses to organisms
Topic 5: Applications of Taxic Responses
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Lesson 1 – Taxic responses and survival
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Lesson 2 – Taxic responses in pest and insect control
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Lesson 3 – Using responses to eliminate pests in homes
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Lesson 4 – Comparing tropic and taxic responses
Section 2: Ecological Relationships and Evolution
Topic 6: Ecosystems
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Lesson 1 – Meaning of an ecosystem
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Lesson 2 – Components of an ecosystem
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Lesson 3 – Terrestrial ecosystems
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Lesson 4 – Aquatic ecosystems
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Lesson 5 – Ecosystems in the local environment
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Lesson 6 – Recording features of ecosystems
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Lesson 7 – Protecting ecosystems
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Lesson 8 – Constructing ecosystem models
Topic 7: Biotic and Abiotic Interactions
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Lesson 1 – Biotic factors
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Lesson 2 – Abiotic factors
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Lesson 3 – Interactions between organisms and their environment
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Lesson 4 – Relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
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Lesson 5 – Three kinds of ecological relationships
Topic 8: Waste Management
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Lesson 1 – Meaning of waste
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Lesson 2 – Types of waste in the environment
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Lesson 3 – Effects of waste accumulation
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Lesson 4 – Benefits of waste-free environments
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Lesson 5 – Waste management methods
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Lesson 6 – Challenges leading to waste accumulation
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Lesson 7 – Creating waste-free zones
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Lesson 8 – Creating awareness of effective waste management
Topic 9: Soil Composition
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Lesson 1 – Meaning and importance of soil
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Lesson 2 – Components of soil
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Lesson 3 – Types of soil
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Lesson 4 – Properties of different soil types
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Lesson 5 – Comparing soil types
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Lesson 6 – Soil investigations
Topic 10: Soil Fertility
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Lesson 1 – Meaning of soil fertility
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Lesson 2 – Features of fertile soil
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Lesson 3 – Causes of loss of soil fertility
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Lesson 4 – Improving soil fertility
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Lesson 5 – Maintaining soil fertility
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Lesson 6 – Comparing crop yield in different soils
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