Daily Practice · GCSE Science
September 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1962State whether a galaxy moving towards Earth would show a red-shift or a blue-shift in its light.
- 2nd September 1962State three factors that increase the rate of diffusion.
- 3rd September 1962A student measures the mean diameter of a zone of inhibition as 12 mm. Calculate its radius.
- 4th September 1962State two things excess glucose can be converted into for storage in the human body.
- 5th September 1962Define homozygous.
- 6th September 1962What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
- 7th September 1962What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
- 8th September 1962Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
- 9th September 1962Molten zinc chloride, ZnCl2, is electrolysed using inert electrodes. Write the half equation for the reaction at (a) the cathode, and (b) the anode.
- 10th September 1962A tangent drawn to a volume-time graph at 15 seconds passes through the points (5 s, 6 cm3) and (25 s, 66 cm3). Calculate the rate of reaction at 15 seconds.
- 11th September 1962Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 12th September 1962Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 13th September 1962Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 14th September 1962Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 15th September 1962A resultant force of 45 N acts on an object of mass 9.0 kg. Calculate its acceleration. Use F = m x a.
- 16th September 1962State the difference between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave.
- 17th September 1962Name the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.
- 18th September 1962Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 19th September 1962Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 20th September 1962State three factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis.
- 21st September 1962Explain why sweating cools the body down.
- 22nd September 1962In 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.
- 23rd September 1962Explain, in terms of particle size, how reverse osmosis separates water from dissolved salt.
- 24th September 1962Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
- 25th September 1962Explain why aluminium cannot be extracted from aluminium oxide by heating with carbon.
- 26th September 1962State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
- 27th September 1962Name the catalyst used when an alkene reacts with hydrogen to form an alkane.
- 28th September 1962Name three greenhouse gases.
- 29th September 1962A kettle transfers 360000 J of energy in 150 s. Calculate its power in watts.
- 30th September 1962Why is the live wire dangerous even when a device is switched off?