Daily Practice · GCSE Science
October 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1960An atom has atomic number 11 and mass number 23. State the number of protons.
- 2nd October 1960Why are the noble gases unreactive?
- 3rd October 1960How many atoms are there in 0.5 mol of helium?
- 4th October 1960State whether the combustion of methane is exothermic or endothermic.
- 5th October 1960State the effect of increasing the temperature on the position of equilibrium of a reaction whose forward reaction is exothermic.
- 6th October 1960Describe the test, and the positive result, for ammonium ions.
- 7th October 1960Convert 3.5 kJ into joules.
- 8th October 1960Two resistors are connected in parallel across a 12 V battery. State the potential difference across each resistor.
- 9th October 1960How is the temperature of a gas related to the motion of its molecules?
- 10th October 1960A car's velocity increases from 8 m/s to 20 m/s over 4 seconds. Calculate its acceleration.
- 11th October 1960State one medical use of X-rays and one safety precaution taken when X-rays are used in a hospital.
- 12th October 1960State two uses of artificial satellites.
- 13th October 1960How many pairs of chromosomes are there in a human body cell?
- 14th October 1960Where are most stomata found on a typical leaf, and why?
- 15th October 1960Name four limiting factors of photosynthesis.
- 16th October 1960State one difference between selective breeding and genetic engineering.
- 17th October 1960State what is meant by the term biodiversity.
- 18th October 1960Give one reason a manufacturer's own life cycle assessment of its product might not be fully objective.
- 19th October 1960Give one use of nanoparticles and one associated risk.
- 20th October 1960Give the ionic equation for neutralisation.
- 21st October 1960State what is shown on a rate graph when the line for the volume of gas produced becomes horizontal (flat).
- 22nd October 1960State the functional group found in all carboxylic acids.
- 23rd October 1960Explain why the natural greenhouse effect is necessary for life on Earth, rather than being a purely harmful process.
- 24th October 1960State the equation for gravitational potential energy.
- 25th October 1960State the correct SI unit for density.
- 26th October 1960Radium-226 (atomic number 88) decays by alpha emission. State the atomic number of the nucleus formed.
- 27th October 1960State the speed at which all electromagnetic waves travel through a vacuum.
- 28th October 1960A transformer has 500 turns on its primary coil and 2500 turns on its secondary coil. State, with a reason, whether this is a step-up or a step-down transformer.
- 29th October 1960Convert 0.02 mm into micrometres (um).
- 30th October 1960Explain what happens to an enzyme above its optimum temperature.
- 31st October 1960Name three non-specific defences of the human body.