Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1962Calculate the kinetic energy of a 0.5 kg ball moving at 6 m/s.
- 2nd November 1962State what happens to the internal energy of a substance as it is heated, in terms of the kinetic and potential energy of its particles.
- 3rd November 1962Explain why americium-241, an alpha emitter, is suitable for use in a smoke detector.
- 4th November 1962Define the term 'wavelength' of a wave.
- 5th November 1962State the difference between an alternator and a dynamo.
- 6th November 1962A microscope has a x10 eyepiece lens and a x20 objective lens. Calculate the total magnification.
- 7th November 1962Where is bile made and where is it stored?
- 8th November 1962Why does a vaccinated person not usually become ill when they meet the pathogen?
- 9th November 1962State the type of effector that produces a physical response by contracting.
- 10th November 1962Give one example of a biotic factor that could affect a population of rabbits.
- 11th November 1962Explain why potable water is not the same as pure water.
- 12th November 1962Explain why sodium chloride conducts electricity when molten but not when solid.
- 13th November 1962Calculate the concentration in moles per cubic decimetre of a solution containing 0.5 mol in 250 cubic centimetres.
- 14th November 1962State the energy transfer that occurs during an endothermic reaction.
- 15th November 1962Balance the equation for the complete combustion of methane: CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O
- 16th November 1962A sample produces only one spot when run in three different solvents. What does this suggest about the sample?
- 17th November 1962Why should a line of best fit be drawn rather than joining the plotted points?
- 18th November 1962In a parallel circuit, how do the branch currents relate to the total current?
- 19th November 1962State the approximate radius of an atom.
- 20th November 1962State two factors that increase a driver's thinking distance.
- 21st November 1962Name a typical material used to make a permanent magnet, and a typical material used to make an induced (temporary) magnet.
- 22nd November 1962State, in one sentence, what the Big Bang model proposes about the early universe.
- 23rd November 1962Give one adaptation of a root hair cell for absorbing mineral ions.
- 24th November 1962Explain why a small number of healthy volunteers are given a very low dose of a new drug in the first stage of a clinical trial.
- 25th November 1962A yeast culture respires without oxygen. Name the two products of this reaction, and name one industrial process that relies on it.
- 26th November 1962A 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.
- 27th November 1962Why is a polystyrene cup with a lid used in energy-change experiments?
- 28th November 1962Write the electronic structure of a magnesium atom (12 electrons).
- 29th November 1962A student measures the mass of a beaker of hydrochloric acid and marble chips as they react and finds it falls. Explain why.
- 30th November 1962Concentrated sodium chloride solution (brine) is electrolysed using inert electrodes. State the products formed at the cathode and at the anode.