Daily Practice · GCSE Science
February 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1962An amylase reaction is complete after 200 seconds. Calculate the rate of reaction using rate = 1000 / time.
- 2nd February 1962State two ways measles is prevented from spreading.
- 3rd February 1962Name the three parts common to every homeostatic control system.
- 4th February 1962State one advantage and one disadvantage of selective breeding in farm animals.
- 5th February 1962An atom has atomic number 11 and mass number 23. State the number of protons.
- 6th February 1962Give two observations when lithium is added to water.
- 7th February 1962State the value of the Avogadro constant and what it counts.
- 8th February 1962State whether the combustion of methane is exothermic or endothermic.
- 9th February 1962In the Haber process, N2(g) + 3H2(g) -> 2NH3(g), state the effect of decreasing the pressure on the position of equilibrium.
- 10th February 1962Write the ionic equation for the precipitation reaction between barium ions and sulfate ions.
- 11th February 1962Write the equation linking power, energy and time, and rearrange it for time.
- 12th February 1962Two resistors are connected in parallel across a 12 V battery. State the potential difference across each resistor.
- 13th February 1962A gas is heated in a sealed rigid container. Explain what happens to the pressure.
- 14th February 1962A train travels at a constant velocity of 40 m/s for 3 minutes. Calculate the distance it travels, in km.
- 15th February 1962A microwave oven uses electromagnetic waves with a wavelength of 0.12 m. Calculate the frequency of these waves (speed of light = 3 x 10^8 m/s).
- 16th February 1962Put the following in order of increasing distance from the Sun: Mars, Venus, Saturn, Earth.
- 17th February 1962Define an undifferentiated cell.
- 18th February 1962Which tissue transports water and mineral ions from the roots?
- 19th February 1962Give three uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis.
- 20th February 1962Name the three-domain system of classification, and name the scientist most associated with proposing it.
- 21st February 1962A 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.
- 22nd February 1962Explain why steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) is generally harder than pure iron.
- 23rd February 1962Why do polymers have higher melting points than small molecules such as methane?
- 24th February 1962Complete: acid + metal carbonate gives ...
- 25th February 1962State the four factors that can increase the rate of a chemical reaction.
- 26th February 1962State the functional group found in all alcohols.
- 27th February 1962Explain why the natural greenhouse effect is necessary for life on Earth, rather than being a purely harmful process.
- 28th February 1962By what factor does kinetic energy increase if speed is doubled?