Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1959Explain why a rucksack with wide, padded straps is more comfortable to carry than one with thin straps, for the same load.
- 2nd November 1959State the three factors needed for a current-carrying wire to experience a force due to the motor effect.
- 3rd November 1959A student measures 24 cubic centimetres of gas in 3 minutes. Calculate the rate.
- 4th November 1959Explain why the rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction decreases sharply above the enzyme's optimum temperature.
- 5th November 1959Give one way of reducing the spread of malaria.
- 6th November 1959A patient's core body temperature has fallen to 35 degrees Celsius. State two physical responses their body makes to raise it back toward normal.
- 7th November 1959Explain one reason it took many years for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to become widely accepted.
- 8th November 1959Write the electronic structure of an atom with 12 electrons.
- 9th November 1959Why do elements in the same group have similar chemical properties?
- 10th November 1959Why is the amount of product directly proportional to the amount of limiting reactant?
- 11th November 1959A reaction profile shows the reactants at 220 kJ and the products at 340 kJ. State whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 12th November 1959State what is meant by dynamic equilibrium.
- 13th November 1959A solution forms a green precipitate with sodium hydroxide solution. Which ion is present?
- 14th November 1959Give the equation for wave speed and its units.
- 15th November 1959State the UK mains supply frequency and typical potential difference.
- 16th November 1959Why does reducing the volume of a gas increase the pressure even though the molecules do not speed up?
- 17th November 1959A skydiver reaches terminal velocity during free fall. Explain what is meant by 'terminal velocity'.
- 18th November 1959State the seven regions of the electromagnetic spectrum in order of increasing frequency.
- 19th November 1959State what provides the centripetal force that keeps a planet in orbit around the Sun.
- 20th November 1959Give one risk of stem cell treatment.
- 21st November 1959Why does a potometer measure water uptake rather than transpiration directly?
- 22nd November 1959Why does the rate of photosynthesis fall at very high temperatures?
- 23rd November 1959Define the term allele.
- 24th November 1959Explain why large-scale deforestation increases the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- 25th November 1959State the four stages considered in a life cycle assessment.
- 26th November 1959Why does simple molecular carbon dioxide have a much lower melting point than giant covalent silicon dioxide?
- 27th November 1959Define oxidation in terms of electrons.
- 28th November 1959State two units that the rate of a reaction can be measured in.
- 29th November 1959Explain why carboxylic acids are described as 'weak acids'.
- 30th November 1959Explain, in one sentence, why the oceans were able to form only after the early Earth had cooled.