Daily Practice · GCSE Science
July 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1959Name the three types of strong chemical bonding.
- 2nd July 1959Convert 250 cubic centimetres into cubic decimetres.
- 3rd July 1959A student heats solid copper carbonate strongly in a test tube, and it breaks down into copper oxide and carbon dioxide. Heating must be continued throughout the reaction for it to keep going. State whether this thermal decomposition reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain your reasoning.
- 4th July 1959State what happens to the boiling point of hydrocarbons as their chain length increases.
- 5th July 1959Write the formula for calculating an Rf value.
- 6th July 1959Readings have a mean of 20.0 cm and a range of 1.0 cm. Calculate the percentage uncertainty.
- 7th July 1959What happens to the total resistance when a second resistor is added in parallel, and why?
- 8th July 1959What happens inside the nucleus when a beta particle is emitted?
- 9th July 1959A 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.
- 10th July 1959Describe the shape of the magnetic field produced around a long straight wire carrying a current.
- 11th July 1959State how the amount of red-shift is related to a galaxy's distance from Earth.
- 12th July 1959State three factors that increase the rate of diffusion.
- 13th July 1959State one way that pathogens can be spread from person to person.
- 14th July 1959State the word equation for anaerobic respiration in human muscle cells.
- 15th July 1959State whether cystic fibrosis is caused by a dominant or a recessive allele.
- 16th July 1959What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
- 17th July 1959What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
- 18th July 1959Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
- 19th July 1959Aqueous 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.
- 20th July 1959In the disappearing cross required practical, state the dependent variable that is measured.
- 21st July 1959Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 22nd July 1959Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 23rd July 1959Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 24th July 1959Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 25th July 1959State whether friction is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 26th July 1959A water wave has a wavelength of 0.4 m and a frequency of 2.5 Hz. Calculate its speed.
- 27th July 1959Explain how elements heavier than iron, such as gold, are created and distributed through the universe.
- 28th July 1959Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 29th July 1959Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 30th July 1959Complete the word equation for anaerobic respiration in yeast: glucose -> ___ + ___
- 31st July 1959State the type of diabetes in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.