Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1955Explain why the solvent level in the container must be below the pencil baseline.
- 2nd December 1955In the specific heat capacity practical, why is the block insulated?
- 3rd December 1955Describe the current-potential difference graph for a filament lamp.
- 4th December 1955State the difference between irradiation and contamination.
- 5th December 1955A skateboarder of mass 55 kg moving at 4 m/s collides with and grabs onto a stationary shopping trolley of mass 20 kg, and they move off together. Calculate their combined velocity immediately after the collision.
- 6th December 1955Describe the shape of the magnetic field produced around a long straight wire carrying a current.
- 7th December 1955State how the amount of red-shift is related to a galaxy's distance from Earth.
- 8th December 1955Name the process that moves substances against a concentration gradient.
- 9th December 1955A student measures the mean diameter of a zone of inhibition as 12 mm. Calculate its radius.
- 10th December 1955State the word equation for anaerobic respiration in human muscle cells.
- 11th December 1955State whether cystic fibrosis is caused by a dominant or a recessive allele.
- 12th December 1955Why is the burette rinsed with the solution it is going to contain rather than with water?
- 13th December 1955State the relative mass and relative charge of a neutron.
- 14th December 1955Calculate the Mr of Ca(OH)2. (Ca = 40, O = 16, H = 1)
- 15th December 1955Aqueous copper sulfate solution is electrolysed using inert graphite electrodes. State the products formed at (a) the cathode and (b) the anode, giving a reason for each.
- 16th December 1955In the disappearing cross required practical, state the dependent variable that is measured.
- 17th December 1955Which reagent is added, and in what colour change, to test for chlorine gas?
- 18th December 1955Explain how solid carbon particulates released by combustion can cause global dimming.
- 19th December 1955A lamp is supplied with 60 J and transfers 6 J as light. Calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
- 20th December 1955Define specific latent heat of fusion.
- 21st December 1955A resultant force of 45 N acts on an object of mass 9.0 kg. Calculate its acceleration. Use F = m x a.
- 22nd December 1955A water wave has a wavelength of 0.4 m and a frequency of 2.5 Hz. Calculate its speed.
- 23rd December 1955Explain how elements heavier than iron, such as gold, are created and distributed through the universe.
- 24th December 1955Give the equation linking magnification, image size and real size.
- 25th December 1955Give one advantage and one disadvantage of a stent.
- 26th December 1955State three factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis.
- 27th December 1955State the type of diabetes in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.
- 28th December 1955State what is meant by the term ecosystem.
- 29th December 1955Explain, in terms of particle size, how reverse osmosis separates water from dissolved salt.
- 30th December 1955Describe metallic bonding.
- 31st December 1955Explain why aluminium cannot be extracted from aluminium oxide by heating with carbon.