Daily Practice · GCSE Science
March 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1959A rectangular coil carrying a current is placed in a magnetic field, with its two long sides parallel to each other. Explain why the coil rotates rather than moving in a straight line.
- 2nd March 1959Define the independent variable.
- 3rd March 1959Name the organ system responsible for breaking food down into small, soluble molecules.
- 4th March 1959Name the type of pathogen that causes malaria.
- 5th March 1959Define homeostasis.
- 6th March 1959Give one example of variation that is caused purely by the environment rather than by genes.
- 7th March 1959An atom has atomic number 9 and mass number 19. Calculate the number of neutrons.
- 8th March 1959Why are the noble gases unreactive?
- 9th March 1959How many atoms are there in 0.5 mol of helium?
- 10th March 1959Give one everyday example of an endothermic process.
- 11th March 1959In the Haber process, state the effect of removing some ammonia from the equilibrium mixture as it forms on the position of equilibrium.
- 12th March 1959Describe the test, and the positive result, for ammonium ions.
- 13th March 1959Convert 3.5 kJ into joules.
- 14th March 1959A current of 2.0 A flows through a resistor for 30 s. Calculate the charge that flows. Use Q = I x t.
- 15th March 1959How is the temperature of a gas related to the motion of its molecules?
- 16th March 1959A runner completes a 400 m race in 52 s. Calculate her average speed, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 17th March 1959Name the type of electromagnetic wave used by a television remote control.
- 18th March 1959Explain why a satellite moving in a stable circular orbit has a changing velocity even though its speed stays constant.
- 19th March 1959How many pairs of chromosomes are there in a human body cell?
- 20th March 1959Where are most stomata found on a typical leaf, and why?
- 21st March 1959Name four limiting factors of photosynthesis.
- 22nd March 1959Explain, using the idea of natural selection, why a population of insects can become resistant to a pesticide over time.
- 23rd March 1959State what is meant by the term biodiversity.
- 24th March 1959Give one reason a manufacturer's own life cycle assessment of its product might not be fully objective.
- 25th March 1959Give one use of nanoparticles and one associated risk.
- 26th March 1959Give the ionic equation for neutralisation.
- 27th March 1959State what is shown on a rate graph when the line for the volume of gas produced becomes horizontal (flat).
- 28th March 1959Name the carboxylic acid produced when ethanol is oxidised.
- 29th March 1959Explain, in terms of gas molecules, why methane and water vapour, as well as carbon dioxide, are described as greenhouse gases.
- 30th March 1959State the equation for gravitational potential energy.
- 31st March 1959A block has a volume of 50 cm^3 and a mass of 135 g. Calculate its density.