Category Archives: 19. Organisms & Environment & 21. Human Influences

IGCSE Bio Topic 19 – Organisms and their Environment

For self-assessment questions, with exercises and discussions, just click on the correct topic at Biology GCSE & IGCSE Question Bank. A powerpoint can be downloaded from the same site here. The s-cool revision site lets you revise the topic, summarizes the topic & tests you on it. Skoool gives you a lesson, including progress questions, for each Biology topic but you’ll need sound on for it. And both these sites –  GCSE Bitesize & GCSE Bitesize – have revision pages (that take you through the topic), a test and an activity. 

Topic 19 revision notes in downloadable word format; to be completed.

GCSE Bitesize covers Living Things in their Environment in 16m 44s.

This powerpoint covers a lot of Topic 19, as well as some of Topic 21:

Igcse biology edexcel 4.1 4.17 from Marcos Rodriguez

How wolves change rivers (a nice intro to Ecology):

19.1 Energy Flow and..

19.2 Food chains, food webs & trophic levels

What is an ecosystem? video from The Virtual School:

What is a trophic level? video from The Virtual School:

Mr W sings Food Chains.

Science Bank 10 (Energy Cycles in Nature): Part 1 – Energy transfer in nature – food chains & energy flow through them (to 5m 25s); Part 2 – the Carbon cycle (to 10m 55s):

19.3 Nutrient Cycles

A short (2m 26s) vid from Clipbank – Recycling Nutrients & Dr Yan’s Rotting Food time lapse from Bang Goes the Theory (1m14s). What happens to your body after you die? – Instant Egghead video (2m 10s).

A lesson on the Carbon Cycle from Mr Dare:

The Carbon Cycle: Carbon Cycle Video – Lesson Starter (3m), Carbon Cycle cartoon by Sofia (Climate Champion, 2006) & GCSE Bitesize – The Carbon Cycle (2m 41s).

IGCSE Bio Topic 21 – Human Influences on Ecosystems

For self-assessment questions, with exercises and discussions, just click on the correct topic at Biology GCSE & IGCSE Question Bank. The s-cool revision site lets you revise the topic, summarizes the topic & tests you on it. Skoool gives you a lesson, including progress questions, for each Biology topic but you’ll need sound on for it. 

Topic 21 revision notes in downloadable word format; to be completed.

This powerpoint covers a lot of Topic 21, as well as revising a lot of Topic 19:

Igcse biology edexcel 4.1 4.17 from Marcos Rodriguez

Science in Focus – The Human Impact – a 19m video.

21.1 Food Supply

A work in progress!

21.2 Habitat Destruction

21.3 Pollution

WATER POLLUTION

EUTROPHICATION

Eutrophication – a short video from The Virtual School:

A lesson (how sewage kills fish) from Mr Dare:

PLASTICS

What really happens to the plastic you throw away:

The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch:

ENHANCED GREENHOUSE EFFECT & CLIMATE CHANGE

A lesson on the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect from Mr Dare:

Mr W sings Seven ways to reduce carbon.

ACID RAIN

A lesson on Acid Rain from Mr Dare:

Here’s a short (less than 5 minute) video clip from BBC iScience – Acid Rain.

21.4 Conservation

A work in progress!