AS & A Level Marine Science · Area 2 of 2

A Level content

Sections 6-9: cell structure and gas exchange, osmoregulation, photosynthesis and chemosynthesis, life cycles, fisheries and aquaculture, human impacts and conservation.

4 topics · 32 exam-style questions · 106 marks

Four pages covering the A Level theory Paper 3 examines and the extended data handling of Paper 4.

Cell structure, movement of substances, gas exchange and osmoregulation

Every marine organism is a cell or a collection of cells, and everything else in physiology follows from how substances cross the membrane that surrounds each one. This p...

8 questions · 27 marks

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Photosynthesis, chemosynthesis and respiration

Light in the sea changes with depth, and every marine food web except the vent communities starts with a pigment capturing that light. This page takes you from wavelength...

8 questions · 26 marks

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Life cycles, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture

Marine organisms get through life in very different ways: a barnacle spends its adult life cemented to a rock and depends on a swimming larva to move, while a whale gives...

8 questions · 25 marks

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Ecological impacts, global warming, acidification and conservation

This page covers the four subtopics that carry the biggest marks in the human impact section: the ecological effects of what we put into the sea, the bioaccumulation and ...

8 questions · 28 marks

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