Daily Practice · GCSE Science
February 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1961What happens inside the nucleus when a beta particle is emitted?
- 2nd February 1961State two factors that increase a driver's thinking distance.
- 3rd February 1961Name a typical material used to make a permanent magnet, and a typical material used to make an induced (temporary) magnet.
- 4th February 1961State, in one sentence, what the Big Bang model proposes about the early universe.
- 5th February 1961State three factors that increase the rate of diffusion.
- 6th February 1961Describe how phagocytes destroy pathogens in the body.
- 7th February 1961A yeast culture respires without oxygen. Name the two products of this reaction, and name one industrial process that relies on it.
- 8th February 1961A man who is a known carrier of cystic fibrosis (Ff) has children with a woman who has been confirmed to carry no cystic fibrosis allele at all (FF). Explain why none of their children can have cystic fibrosis.
- 9th February 1961What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
- 10th February 1961What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
- 11th February 1961Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
- 12th February 1961Concentrated sodium chloride solution (brine) is electrolysed using inert electrodes. State the products formed at the cathode and at the anode.
- 13th February 1961Explain why increasing temperature increases the rate of a reaction, referring to both the frequency and the energy of collisions.
- 14th February 1961Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 15th February 1961Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 16th February 1961Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 17th February 1961Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 18th February 1961Calculate the weight of an object of mass 8.0 kg on Earth, where g = 9.8 N/kg.
- 19th February 1961Sound waves travel through a steel rail at approximately 5900 m/s. A sound wave sent along the rail has a frequency of 2950 Hz. Calculate its wavelength.
- 20th February 1961State the eventual fate of a star with a much greater mass than the Sun, after it explodes as a supernova.
- 21st February 1961Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 22nd February 1961Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 23rd February 1961Name the gas that is released as a product of photosynthesis.
- 24th February 1961Name the gland often called the body's master gland.
- 25th February 1961In a grassland food chain, the biomass of grass available is 8400 kg and the biomass transferred to the rabbits that eat it is 940 kg. Calculate the percentage efficiency of biomass transfer from grass to rabbits, to 3 significant figures.
- 26th February 1961Explain why potable water is not required to be chemically pure.
- 27th February 1961Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
- 28th February 1961State the name given to a reaction in which a substance loses electrons.