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Year 10 / GCSE · Science

Biology: Plant Systems

Year 10 / GCSE learners practise plant transport and photosynthesis gcse biology.

The activities include Analyse How Plant Diseases are Detected and Identified, Analyse the Roles of Xylem and Phloem in Plants, Compare the Advantages and Disadvantages of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, practice, worksheet, teach. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Analyse How Plant Diseases are Detected and Identified
  • Analyse the Roles of Xylem and Phloem in Plants
  • Compare the Advantages and Disadvantages of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
  • Consider the Adaptations of the Leaf
  • Describe the Process of Photosynthesis
  • Describe the Process of Photosynthesis
  • Describe the Structures and Functions of the Leaf
  • Describe Transpiration
  • Discuss Conditions Affecting Transpiration
  • Explain the Process of Photosynthesis
  • Explain the Roles of Xylem and Phloem in Plants
  • Explain Transpiration
  • Explain Transpiration
  • Explore Factors that Determine Transpiration Rates
  • Explore the Process of Photosynthesis
  • Interpret the Limiting Factors of Photosynthesis
  • Investigate the Limiting Factors of Photosynthesis
  • Know the Structures of the Leaf
  • Understand Photosynthesis
  • Understand the Functions of Different Plant Hormones
  • Understand the Limiting Factors of Photosynthesis
  • Understand the Roles of Xylem and Phloem in Plants
  • Understand Transpiration

Checked learning resources

  • Plant defences and identifying plant diseases

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson covering visible symptoms of plant disease, nutrient-deficiency symptoms, comparison with healthy plants, identification using gardening manuals and websites, laboratory testing and monoclonal-anti

  • Xylem and transpiration

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson explaining that lignified dead xylem vessels transport water and mineral ions from roots to leaves and that evaporation through stomata creates the transpiration stream.

  • Sexual and asexual reproduction

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson comparing sexual reproduction, which combines alleles from two parents and creates variation, with faster one-parent asexual reproduction that produces genetically identical offspring; it uses plan

  • Leaf adaptations for photosynthesis

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 10 Biology lesson explaining photosynthesis as an endothermic process in chloroplasts and how broad, thin leaves, palisade cells, chloroplasts, stomata and veins are adapted to absorb light, exchange gases and s

  • Leaf exchange surfaces and plant transport systems

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson linking leaf exchange surfaces and specialised cells to transport: palisade mesophyll carries out most photosynthesis, stomata and guard cells control gas exchange, and xylem and phloem supply and

  • Environmental factors affecting transpiration

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson using data to explain how light intensity, temperature, air movement and humidity alter evaporation, diffusion through stomata and the rate of water uptake by a leafy shoot.

  • Interpreting limiting-factor graphs for photosynthesis

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson focused on interpreting photosynthesis-rate graphs with light intensity, carbon dioxide concentration, temperature and interacting limiting factors, including why curves plateau when a different fa

  • Auxins, phototropism and gravitropism

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson defining plant hormones, auxins, tropisms, phototropism and gravitropism and explaining how unequal auxin distribution changes cell elongation in shoots and roots.