Daily Practice · GCSE Science
July 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1960A spring is compressed. Which energy store increases?
- 2nd July 1960Give the equation linking energy transferred, charge flow and potential difference.
- 3rd July 1960Who provided the evidence for the existence of the neutron, and roughly when relative to the nuclear model?
- 4th July 1960A spanner is used to loosen a bolt. Explain why using a longer spanner makes it easier to loosen the bolt.
- 5th July 1960State two ways of increasing the force produced by a motor effect setup, for a wire of fixed length at a fixed angle to the field.
- 6th July 1960Why does taking repeat readings and calculating a mean improve the data?
- 7th July 1960Name the organ system responsible for breaking food down into small, soluble molecules.
- 8th July 1960State two ways measles is prevented from spreading.
- 9th July 1960Name the hormone released when blood glucose concentration is too high, and state its overall effect.
- 10th July 1960Define mutation.
- 11th July 1960An atom has atomic number 9 and mass number 19. Calculate the number of neutrons.
- 12th July 1960Give two observations when lithium is added to water.
- 13th July 1960State the value of the Avogadro constant and what it counts.
- 14th July 1960Give one everyday example of an endothermic process.
- 15th July 1960The forward reaction of a particular reversible reaction is exothermic. State whether the reverse reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 16th July 1960Write the ionic equation for the precipitation reaction between barium ions and sulfate ions.
- 17th July 1960Write the equation linking power, energy and time, and rearrange it for time.
- 18th July 1960A current of 2.0 A flows through a resistor for 30 s. Calculate the charge that flows. Use Q = I x t.
- 19th July 1960A gas is heated in a sealed rigid container. Explain what happens to the pressure.
- 20th July 1960State what the gradient of a distance-time graph represents.
- 21st July 1960Explain why ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays can be hazardous to human health, but radio waves are not.
- 22nd July 1960Explain, in terms of forces, why a satellite in a stable orbit does not fall towards the Earth or fly off into space.
- 23rd July 1960Define an undifferentiated cell.
- 24th July 1960Which tissue transports water and mineral ions from the roots?
- 25th July 1960Give three uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis.
- 26th July 1960In pea plants, the allele for tall stems (T) is dominant over the allele for short stems (t). A homozygous tall plant (TT) is crossed with a homozygous short plant (tt). State the genotype and phenotype of all the offspring.
- 27th July 1960A peat bog covered an area of 850 hectares in 2015. By 2025, drainage for farmland had reduced the peat bog to 680 hectares. Calculate the percentage decrease in the area of the peat bog.
- 28th July 1960Explain why steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) is generally harder than pure iron.
- 29th July 1960Why do polymers have higher melting points than small molecules such as methane?
- 30th July 1960Complete: acid + metal carbonate gives ...
- 31st July 1960State the four factors that can increase the rate of a chemical reaction.