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GCSE Biology Knowledge Mats

All 4 sheets — Inheritance, variation and evolution, Coordination and control, Health, disease and medicines and Ecosystems — for £3.99. One landscape page per topic, every claim sourced and every image licensed.

4 sheets · one A4 landscape PDF each · instant download

Bought once for the set, not per sheet. Photocopy them for your classes freely — keep the running foot on the page, which carries the image credits the licences require.

£3.99 for all 4

Inheritance, variation and evolution knowledge mat — watermarked preview

Inheritance, variation and evolution

From One Molecule to a New Species

How a molecule copied base by base ends up changing a whole population — and the evidence that it does. Seven dates across the top, from Linnaeus to the Human Genome Project; DNA and the genome; predicting a cross with a Punnett square; variation, mutation and selection under Gould's finches; the four people a GCSE answer needs; the evidence, from fossils to MRSA, and what changes when humans do the selecting. Twelve terms to define, a model answer on antibiotic resistance, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Coordination and control knowledge mat — watermarked preview

Coordination and control

The Body Holds Its Line

How a body detects a change and reverses it — and why every one of these systems works the same way. Nerves and the reflex arc; the brain; hormones, with the menstrual cycle drawn as four hormones across 28 days, contraception and fertility treatment; the eye and its defects; the four values the body will not let go — temperature, glucose with insulin and glucagon, water, and plant hormones — and the negative-feedback loop that runs all of it. Sixteen terms to define, a model answer on blood glucose, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Health, disease and medicines knowledge mat — watermarked preview

Health, disease and medicines

One Cause, or Many

Why one disease can be stopped by washing your hands and another only by changing how you live. Four pathogens and four routes in, each with the control that blocks it; the body's defences, from skin to lymphocytes, and monoclonal antibodies; vaccines and the immune response drawn as a graph; measles, tobacco mosaic virus and coronary heart disease side by side; how a new medicine reaches a patient, from discovery to peer review. Fifteen terms to define, a model answer on herd immunity, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Ecosystems knowledge mat — watermarked preview

Ecosystems

Materials Cycle. Energy Does Not.

Why carbon goes round for ever while energy passes through once — and what that forces every food chain to look like. Organism to ecosystem, abiotic and biotic factors; the carbon and water cycles and what stops decay; biomass falling at every trophic level, with a worked efficiency calculation; coral reefs, permafrost and irrigated farmland under pressure. Twelve terms to define, a model answer on why food chains are short, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

The previews above are the full sheets, watermarked. Where a sheet carries photographs, every one is public domain worldwide or licensed CC BY, verified per image against the licence itself rather than a label, and the running foot names every creator, records that the images have been cropped and adjusted for print, and links the licence; figures are drawn in code for the sheet, and extracts are written for it or verified against a public-domain text. Nothing on any sheet is reproduced from a past paper, a mark scheme, an examiner report or a specification, and Empower Educators is not affiliated with any awarding body.

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