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Revised Nuffield Biology 3: Living Things and their Environment

The texts for Revised Nuffield Biology offered an amended version of the  fourth year  of the five-year course to O-level. The revision was based on the experience of numerous teachers with the original edition. Extra help in the teachers’ guide included: *indications of possible teaching sequences *flow diagrams outlining the contents of each chapter *answers or comments related to questions in the student text.

Contents

Foreword Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition

Chapter 1: The uneven distribution of organisms

Chapter 2: Reaching the habitat

Chapter 3: Colonization, succession, and climax

Chapter 4: Living organisms as habitats for others

Chapter 5: The soil as a habitat and a community

Chapter 6: Feeding relationships and energy flow in a community

Chapter 7: Man and his environment

Chapter 8: Detecting changes in the environment

Chapter 9: Movement and nervous co-ordination

Chapter 10: The chemical co-ordination of response

Chapter 11: How organisms behave

Chapter 12: Analysing the behaviour of animals

Appendix 1: Chemical recipes

Appendix 2: Equipment

Appendix 3: Living organisms

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