Daily Practice · GCSE Science
October 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1962Describe the plum pudding model.
- 2nd October 1962A force of 40 N is applied 0.25 m from a pivot. Calculate the moment.
- 3rd October 1962A rectangular coil carrying a current is placed in a magnetic field, with its two long sides parallel to each other. Explain why the coil rotates rather than moving in a straight line.
- 4th October 1962Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.
- 5th October 1962Name the plant tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the leaves.
- 6th October 1962Define a communicable disease.
- 7th October 1962Define homeostasis.
- 8th October 1962Give one example of variation that is caused purely by the environment rather than by genes.
- 9th October 1962Explain, in terms of electrons, why reactivity decreases going down Group 7.
- 10th October 1962Explain why potassium is more reactive than sodium.
- 11th October 1962Calculate the number of moles in 88 g of carbon dioxide. (Mr = 44)
- 12th October 1962Explain, in terms of bonds, why breaking bonds is an endothermic process.
- 13th October 1962In the Haber process, state the effect of removing some ammonia from the equilibrium mixture as it forms on the position of equilibrium.
- 14th October 1962A solution gives a cream precipitate when acidified with dilute nitric acid and then treated with silver nitrate solution. Name the halide ion present.
- 15th October 1962A device transfers 4500 J in 90 s. Calculate its power.
- 16th October 1962In a series circuit, the current through one lamp is 0.30 A. State the current through a second lamp in the same circuit.
- 17th October 1962Why does a bicycle pump get warm when used?
- 18th October 1962A runner completes a 400 m race in 52 s. Calculate her average speed, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 19th October 1962Name the type of electromagnetic wave used by a television remote control.
- 20th October 1962Explain why a satellite moving in a stable circular orbit has a changing velocity even though its speed stays constant.
- 21st October 1962What happens to the DNA before mitosis begins?
- 22nd October 1962State two conditions that increase the rate of transpiration.
- 23rd October 1962A lamp is moved from 15 cm to 30 cm away. What happens to the light intensity?
- 24th October 1962Explain, using the idea of natural selection, why a population of insects can become resistant to a pesticide over time.
- 25th October 1962Name the biological process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converts it into carbon compounds in a plant.
- 26th October 1962State one environmental benefit of recycling aluminium cans rather than making new aluminium from ore.
- 27th October 1962Explain why graphite conducts electricity but diamond does not.
- 28th October 1962State what is observed when magnesium ribbon is added to copper sulfate solution.
- 29th October 1962State the equation for the mean rate of a reaction in terms of the quantity of reactant used.
- 30th October 1962Name the carboxylic acid produced when ethanol is oxidised.
- 31st October 1962Describe, in terms of wavelength, the difference between the radiation the Earth receives from the Sun and the radiation it re-emits from its surface.