Daily Practice · GCSE Science
April 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1962Explain how solid carbon particulates released by combustion can cause global dimming.
- 2nd April 1962A lamp is supplied with 60 J and transfers 6 J as light. Calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
- 3rd April 1962Define specific latent heat of fusion.
- 4th April 1962State whether friction is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 5th April 1962Give one everyday example of a transverse wave and one everyday example of a longitudinal wave.
- 6th April 1962State what happens to the orbital speed needed for a stable orbit as the orbital radius increases.
- 7th April 1962Give the equation linking magnification, image size and real size.
- 8th April 1962Give one advantage and one disadvantage of a stent.
- 9th April 1962Complete the word equation for anaerobic respiration in yeast: glucose -> ___ + ___
- 10th April 1962Explain why type 1 diabetes is treated with insulin injections rather than tablets.
- 11th April 1962State what is meant by the term ecosystem.
- 12th April 1962Give one reason distillation of seawater requires a large energy input.
- 13th April 1962Describe metallic bonding.
- 14th April 1962A student reacts 2.4 g of magnesium with excess dilute hydrochloric acid: Mg + 2HCl -> MgCl2 + H2. Relative atomic mass of Mg = 24. Calculate the number of moles of hydrogen gas produced.
- 15th April 1962State whether breaking a chemical bond requires energy or releases energy.
- 16th April 1962Name the alkene with the molecular formula C4H8.
- 17th April 1962Name the two gases released in large amounts by volcanic activity that formed most of the Earth's early atmosphere.
- 18th April 1962Name the energy store associated with a moving car.
- 19th April 1962Why does the national grid transmit electricity at a very high potential difference?
- 20th April 1962Why is the atomic model a good example of how scientific models change?
- 21st April 1962A spanner is used to loosen a bolt. Explain why using a longer spanner makes it easier to loosen the bolt.
- 22nd April 1962State 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.
- 23rd April 1962Define the independent variable.
- 24th April 1962State the type of large biological molecule that all enzymes are made from.
- 25th April 1962Name the type of pathogen that causes malaria.
- 26th April 1962Name the hormone released when blood glucose concentration is too high, and state its overall effect.
- 27th April 1962Define mutation.
- 28th April 1962A sample contains 90% of an isotope with mass number 10 and 10% of an isotope with mass number 11. Calculate the relative atomic mass, to 1 decimal place.
- 29th April 1962Why are the noble gases unreactive?
- 30th April 1962How many atoms are there in 0.5 mol of helium?