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The document outlines the contents of the Cambridge Essentials Science book, which includes various topics in biology, chemistry, and physics. It also describes the accompanying CD-ROM and web resources that provide interactive activities, quizzes, and lesson planning tools for both students and teachers. The book aims to enhance understanding of scientific concepts through a structured approach and additional online resources.

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CESS E8 Contents It

The document outlines the contents of the Cambridge Essentials Science book, which includes various topics in biology, chemistry, and physics. It also describes the accompanying CD-ROM and web resources that provide interactive activities, quizzes, and lesson planning tools for both students and teachers. The book aims to enhance understanding of scientific concepts through a structured approach and additional online resources.

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Contents
Introduction 1 8E.4 Organising the elements 72
8E.HSW Developing the periodic table 74
Biology Questions 76
8A Food and digestion 8F Compounds and mixtures
8A.1 Why we need food 2 8F.1 Names and formulae 78
8A.2 Eating for energy, eating for health 4 8F.2 Reactions and compounds 80
8A.HSW Planning an investigation – preliminary testing 6 8F.3 What is a mixture 82
8A.3 A healthy diet 8 8F.4 Air is a mixture 84
8A.4 Modelling absorption 9 8F.5 Changing the atmosphere 86
8A.5 Gathering evidence about digestion 10 8F.6 Sustainable development 88
8A.6 After digestion 12 8F.HSW Extracting metals from the Earth 90
Questions 14 Questions 92
8B Respiration 8G Rocks and weathering
8B.1 How cells use food 18 8G.1 Different rocks 96
8B.2 How ideas about blood circulation changed 20 8G.2 Wearing away 98
8B.3 Oxygen supplies to cells 22 8G.3 Moving rocks 100
8B.4 What happens in your lungs 24 8G.4 More about rocks 102
8B.HSW Collaborating to combat lung disease 26 8G.HSW Measurements and conclusions 104
8B.5 Comparing inhales and exhaled air 28 Questions 106
8B.6 Other living things respire too 30 8H The rock cycle
Questions 32 8H.1 Changing rocks 108
8C Micro-organisms and disease 8H.2 All about magma 110
8C.1 Micro-organisms and how to grow them 36 8H.3 Recycling the rocks 112
8C.2 Micro-organisms and disease 39 8H.HSW Theories about the structure of the Earth 114
8C.3 The evidence that stopped an epidemic 40 Questions 116
8C.4 Protecting ourselves against disease 42
Physics
8C.HSW Maggots and other medical marvels 44
Questions 46 8I Heating and cooling
8D Ecological relationships 8I.1 Measuring how hot things are 118
8D.1 Classifying animals and plants 50 8I.2 Changing temperature 120
8D.2 Behavious for survival 52 8I.3 Other ways of moving heat 122
8D.3 Interactions in a habitat 54 8I.4 Keeping warm 124
8D.4 How living things depend on each other 58 8I.HSW Collecting data 126
8D.HSW Ways of gathering evidence 60 Questions 128
Questions 62 8J Magnets and electromagnets
8J.1 About magnets 130
Chemistry 8J.2 Magnetic fields 132
8E Atoms and elements 8J.3 Electromagnets 134
8E.1 Materials 66 8J.4 Using magnets 136
8E.2 Atoms 68 8J.HSW Different types of data 138
8E.3 Changes 70 Questions 140

The contents of this book and CD-ROM are copyright Cambridge University Press 2008 iii
Physics continued 8L Sound and hearing
8K Light 8L.1 Making different sounds 156
8K.1 Travelling light 142 8L.2 Detecting sounds 158
8K.2 Light hitting objects 144 8L.3 Hearing sounds 160
8K.3 Mirrors 146 8L.HSW Using sound 162
8K.4 Bending light 148 Questions 164
8K.5 The spectrum 150 Summaries 166
8K.HSW Using light in different ways 152 Glossary/Index 178
Questions 154 Acknowledgements 186

iv 
Introduction

Take advantage of the CD Take advantage of the web


Cambridge Essentials Science comes with a CD in the Cambridge Essentials Science lets you go directly
back. This contains the entire book as an interactive from your book to web-based activities on our website,
PDF file, which you can read on your computer including animations, exercises, investigations and
using free Adobe Reader software from Adobe quizzes. Access is free to all users of the book.
(www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html).
There are three kinds of activity, each linked to from a
As well as the material you can see in the book, the
different place within each unit.
PDF file gives you extras when you click on the
buttons you will see on most pages; see the inside front • Scientific enquiry: these buttons appear at the
cover for a brief explanation of these. start and end of each unit. The activities in this
section allow you to develop skills related to
To use the CD, simply insert it into the CD or DVD
scientific enquiry, including experiments that
drive of your computer. You will be prompted to install
would be hard to carry out in the classroom.
the contents of the CD to your hard drive. Installing
will make it easier to use the PDF file, because the • Check your progress: these buttons come half-
installer creates an icon on your desktop that launches way through each unit. They let you check how
the PDF directly. However, it will run just as well well you have understood the unit so far.
straight from the CD. • Review your work: these buttons come at the
If you want to install the contents of the disc onto your end of each unit. They let you show that you have
hard disc yourself, this is easily done. Just open the understood the unit, or let you find areas where
disc contents in your file manager (for Apple Macs, you need more work.
double click on the CD icon on your desktop; for The Teacher Material CD-ROM for Cambridge
Windows, open My Computer and double click on Essentials Science contains enhanced interactive PDFs.
your CD drive icon), select all the files and folders and As well as all the features of the pupil PDF, teachers
copy them wherever you want. have links to the Essentials Science Planner – a new
website with a full lesson planning tool, including
worksheets, practicals, assessment materials, guidance
and example lesson plans. The e-learning materials
are fully integrated, letting you see the animations in
context and alongside all the other materials.

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