This book, together with Pathfinder Science Book B, provides a complete guide for students for students in the first two years of New Zealand secondary school Science. It is designed so that students can understand and recall scientific ideas, facts, formulae and skills.
Table of contents
Curriculum Coverage Unit Format
Living World Strand
Nature of Life Unit 1: Living Things Unit 2: Cellular Life Unit 3: Diversity of Life Unit 4: Microscopic Life
Plant Life Processes Unit 5: Nutrition & Food Unit 6: Circulation of Water Unit 7: Reproduction Unit 8: Growth & Sensitivity
Physical World Strand
Energy Changes & Heat Unit 9: Types of Energy Unit 10: Energy Transformation Unit 11: Thermal Energy Unit 12: Heat Transfer
Waves & Energy Unit 13: Light Waves Unit 14: Reflecting Light Unit 15: Refracting Light Unit 16: Colour & Wavelength Unit 17: Sea & Sound Waves
Material World Strand
Matter & Particles Unit 18: States of Matter Unit 19: Changing States Unit 20: Moving Particles Unit 21: Dissolving Away
Atoms & Reactions Unit 22: Atoms & Elements Unit 23: Inside Atoms Unit 24: Reacting Atoms Unit 25: Gases & Reactions
Planet Earth & Beyond Strand
Solar System & Life Unit 26: The Planets Unit 27: The Sun & Stars Unit 28: Earth's Motion Unit 29: Conditions for Life
