Unit Award Scheme

10536 SCIENCE: EARTH AND ATMOSPHERE

In successfully completing this unit, the Learner will have		Evidence needed
demonstrated the ability to
1	indicate how a problem relevant to the unit can be investigated	Summary sheet
2	handle equipment and materials safely	Summary sheet
3	record the results of an experiment	Summary sheet
4	state what has been found out in the experiment	Summary sheet
shown knowledge of
5	the cracking of the Earths crust and upper part of the mantle into a number of large pieces called plates	Student completed work
6	convection currents in the mantle causing the plates to move very slowly	Student completed work
7	the occurrence of earthquakes and/or volcanic eruptions at the boundaries between plates and the difficulty of predicting these	Student completed work
8	the proportions of nitrogen and oxygen in the Earths atmosphere and the presence of small amounts of other gases	Student completed work
9	the chemical unreactivity of noble gases allowing them to be used in lamps and fluorescent tubes	Student completed work
10	helium being much less dense than air and being used in balloons	Student completed work
11	volcanic activity during the first billion years of the Earths existence releasing the gases that formed in the early atmosphere and water vapour that condensed to form the oceans	Student completed work
12	plants producing the oxygen now in the atmosphere by photosynthesis	Student completed work
13	most carbon from the carbon dioxide in the early atmosphere becoming locked up in rocks and the release of carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels increasing the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere	Student completed work
14	the use of data to evaluate effects of human activities on the atmosphere.	Student completed work

All outcomes recorded on an AQA Summary Sheet

Approved 21 February 2019Level - Level Two