SNC2D Final Exam Outline January 2015
Exam Breakdown – Total 125 marks (30% of final mark)
 Knowledge 25 marks (40 Multiple Choice)
 Communication 25 marks (Short Answer, diagrams)
 Thinking 40 marks (Short Answer, calculations)
 Application 20 marks (Short Answer)
Materials Permitted – Important Information
 Pencil, pen, highlighter, eraser, ruler, protractor and non-programmable
calculator.
 Students are provided with a Periodic Table of Elements, a polyatomic ions chart,
and formulas (index of refraction and thin lens equations)
 Borrowing of equipment is not permitted.
 You must be in proper uniform to write the exam!!
Topics to Study
Chemistry
- Chemical vs. physical properties and changes
- Elements and the periodic table - protons, electrons, neutrons, atomic number,
atomic mass, charge, metals, non-metals, families, patterns of reactivity
- Formation of ions and ionic bonds
- Naming and writing chemical formulas – ionic compounds, multivalent metals,
polyatomic ions, molecular compounds, acids
- Lewis or Bohr diagrams for elements and compounds
- Counting atoms in compounds
- Writing chemical equations and word equations
- Reactants and products
- Law of conservation of mass
- Balancing reactions
- Types of reactions – synthesis, decomposition, single displacement, double
displacement, combustion
- Predicting products of chemical reactions
- Acids and bases – naming, writing formulas, properties
- pH scale
- Neutralization reactions
Optics
- What is light and the electromagnetic spectrum
- Sources of light – incandescence, fluorescence, bioluminescence,
chemiluminescence, phosphorescence, electric discharge
- Efficiency of incandescent vs. fluorescent light bulbs
- Law of reflection and terminology of reflection (incident ray, reflected ray, angle
of incidence, angle of reflection, normal)
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Drawing ray diagrams – plane mirrors, concave mirrors, convex mirrors,
converging lenses, diverging lenses
Describing images in mirrors and lenses using SALT
Refraction – definition, rules for refraction, drawing refracted ray
Comparing the index of refraction for different media using a diagram
Calculating index of refraction (GRASS)
Total internal reflection – conditions, critical angle
Mirror and lens equations (GRASS)
Biology
- Organelles in cells – labelling diagrams and functions
- DNA – what it is, where it is found, why it is important
- Diffusion and osmosis
- Cell cycle and mitosis – labelling diagrams and explanation of each stage
- Cell structures involved in mitosis – spindle fibres, centrioles, sister chromatids,
centromere etc
- Cancer
- Hierarchy of structure in animals (cell, tissue, organ, organ system)
- Types of tissues in animals
- Stem cells and differentiation
- Digestive system, circulatory system, respiratory system – structure and function
of each system (labelling diagrams)
- Arteries and veins
- Structure of the heart and blood flow
- Inhalation and exhalation
- How systems work together
- Animal cells vs. plant cells
- Animal systems vs. plant systems
- Photosynthesis