Daily Practice · GCSE Science
October 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1959Name the second major piece of observational evidence, besides red-shift, that supports the Big Bang model.
- 2nd October 1959Give one adaptation of a root hair cell for absorbing mineral ions.
- 3rd October 1959Describe how phagocytes destroy pathogens in the body.
- 4th October 1959A student counts 19 pulse beats in 10 seconds immediately after running. Calculate her heart rate in beats per minute.
- 5th October 1959State how many chromosomes are found in a normal human body cell, and how they are arranged.
- 6th October 1959Why is a polystyrene cup with a lid used in energy-change experiments?
- 7th October 1959Write the electronic structure of a magnesium atom (12 electrons).
- 8th October 1959A student measures the mass of a beaker of hydrochloric acid and marble chips as they react and finds it falls. Explain why.
- 9th October 1959In the industrial extraction of aluminium, explain why the carbon anodes need to be replaced regularly.
- 10th October 1959State the condition, in terms of energy, that colliding particles must meet for a reaction to occur.
- 11th October 1959Name the gas that relights a glowing splint.
- 12th October 1959Name two gases that dissolve in atmospheric water droplets to cause acid rain.
- 13th October 1959Define power and give its unit.
- 14th October 1959Convert a density of 2.7 grams per cubic centimetre into kilograms per cubic metre.
- 15th October 1959Calculate the weight of an object of mass 8.0 kg on Earth, where g = 9.8 N/kg.
- 16th October 1959A wave has a period of 0.005 s. Calculate its frequency.
- 17th October 1959State the difference between a natural satellite and an artificial satellite, and give one example of each.
- 18th October 1959Give one advantage of a light microscope over an electron microscope.
- 19th October 1959Name the blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
- 20th October 1959Name the gas that is released as a product of photosynthesis.
- 21st October 1959Name the hormone that causes the liver to convert stored glycogen back into glucose.
- 22nd October 1959Thermus aquaticus is a species of bacterium that lives in hot springs at temperatures that would kill most other organisms. State the name given to an organism that is adapted to survive in such extreme conditions.
- 23rd October 1959Explain why potable water is not required to be chemically pure.
- 24th October 1959Why can an ionic compound conduct electricity when molten or dissolved but not when solid?
- 25th October 1959State the name given to a reaction in which a substance loses electrons.
- 26th October 1959State the only substance produced when a hydrogen fuel cell reacts pure hydrogen with pure oxygen.
- 27th October 1959State the type of reaction that occurs when bromine adds across the double bond of an alkene.
- 28th October 1959Give two processes that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 29th October 1959Calculate the kinetic energy of a 2.0 kg trolley moving at 4.0 m/s.
- 30th October 1959Give the colour and function of the earth wire.
- 31st October 1959What observation showed the nucleus is positively charged and very small?