Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1962Explain why increasing temperature increases the rate of a reaction, referring to both the frequency and the energy of collisions.
- 2nd December 1962Name the gas that relights a glowing splint.
- 3rd December 1962Name two gases that dissolve in atmospheric water droplets to cause acid rain.
- 4th December 1962Define power and give its unit.
- 5th December 1962Convert a density of 2.7 grams per cubic centimetre into kilograms per cubic metre.
- 6th December 1962A cyclist rides 300 m north then 300 m back south to the start. State the total distance travelled and total displacement.
- 7th December 1962Sound waves travel through a steel rail at approximately 5900 m/s. A sound wave sent along the rail has a frequency of 2950 Hz. Calculate its wavelength.
- 8th December 1962State the eventual fate of a star with a much greater mass than the Sun, after it explodes as a supernova.
- 9th December 1962Give one advantage of a light microscope over an electron microscope.
- 10th December 1962Name the blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
- 11th December 1962A lamp is placed 10 cm from pondweed. Calculate the relative light intensity using relative light intensity = 1 / distance^2.
- 12th December 1962Name the gland often called the body's master gland.
- 13th December 1962Thermus aquaticus is a species of bacterium that lives in hot springs at temperatures that would kill most other organisms. State the name given to an organism that is adapted to survive in such extreme conditions.
- 14th December 1962Classify crude oil as finite or renewable, and justify your answer.
- 15th December 1962Why can an ionic compound conduct electricity when molten or dissolved but not when solid?
- 16th December 1962Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in 200 cm3 of a 0.500 mol/dm3 solution.
- 17th December 1962State the only substance produced when a hydrogen fuel cell reacts pure hydrogen with pure oxygen.
- 18th December 1962State the number of covalent bonds a carbon atom forms in a saturated hydrocarbon.
- 19th December 1962Give two human activities that increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
- 20th December 1962A 5.0 kg object is lifted 3.0 m. Calculate its gain in gravitational potential energy (g = 9.8 N/kg).
- 21st December 1962Give the colour and function of the earth wire.
- 22nd December 1962What observation showed the nucleus is positively charged and very small?
- 23rd December 1962State the equation that links pressure, force and area.
- 24th December 1962In a simple d.c. electric motor, state the name and function of the component that reverses the current in the coil every half turn.
- 25th December 1962A student measures 24 cubic centimetres of gas in 3 minutes. Calculate the rate.
- 26th December 1962State two ways that bile aids the digestion of fats.
- 27th December 1962Give one way of reducing the spread of malaria.
- 28th December 1962Name the gland that monitors and controls blood glucose concentration.
- 29th December 1962Explain why genetic engineering can introduce a new characteristic in a single generation, while selective breeding cannot.
- 30th December 1962State the relative charge of a neutron.
- 31st December 1962Why do elements in the same group have similar chemical properties?