Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1963How is the temperature of a gas related to the motion of its molecules?
- 2nd December 1963A train travels at a constant velocity of 40 m/s for 3 minutes. Calculate the distance it travels, in km.
- 3rd December 1963A microwave oven uses electromagnetic waves with a wavelength of 0.12 m. Calculate the frequency of these waves (speed of light = 3 x 10^8 m/s).
- 4th December 1963Put the following in order of increasing distance from the Sun: Mars, Venus, Saturn, Earth.
- 5th December 1963How many pairs of chromosomes are there in a human body cell?
- 6th December 1963Where are most stomata found on a typical leaf, and why?
- 7th December 1963Name four limiting factors of photosynthesis.
- 8th December 1963Name the three-domain system of classification, and name the scientist most associated with proposing it.
- 9th December 1963State what is meant by the term biodiversity.
- 10th December 1963Give one reason a manufacturer's own life cycle assessment of its product might not be fully objective.
- 11th December 1963Give one use of nanoparticles and one associated risk.
- 12th December 1963Give the ionic equation for neutralisation.
- 13th December 1963State what is shown on a rate graph when the line for the volume of gas produced becomes horizontal (flat).
- 14th December 1963State the functional group found in all alcohols.
- 15th December 1963Explain, in one sentence, why the oceans were able to form only after the early Earth had cooled.
- 16th December 1963State the equation for gravitational potential energy.
- 17th December 1963A 1.5 kg block of iron is heated from 18 degrees C to 98 degrees C. The specific heat capacity of iron is 450 J/(kg degrees C). Calculate the change in thermal energy.
- 18th December 1963Radium-226 (atomic number 88) decays by alpha emission. State the atomic number of the nucleus formed.
- 19th December 1963State what happens to the frequency of a wave when it is refracted as it passes into a different material.
- 20th December 1963State two factors that increase the size of the potential difference induced in a coil.
- 21st December 1963State one structure found in a bacterial cell but not in an animal cell.
- 22nd December 1963Explain what happens to an enzyme above its optimum temperature.
- 23rd December 1963Name three non-specific defences of the human body.
- 24th December 1963Put these into the correct order for a reflex arc: motor neuron, receptor, effector, relay neuron, sensory neuron.
- 25th December 1963State one structural adaptation of a polar bear that helps it survive in a cold environment.
- 26th December 1963Define a finite resource, giving one example.
- 27th December 1963State one reason why simple covalent substances such as chlorine have low melting points.
- 28th December 1963Convert a concentration of 0.20 moles per cubic decimetre of NaOH into grams per cubic decimetre. (Mr = 40)
- 29th December 1963State the energy transfer that occurs during an exothermic reaction.
- 30th December 1963Name the process used to separate crude oil into fractions.
- 31st December 1963In a chromatography experiment, a dye spot travels 4.5 cm and the solvent front travels 6.0 cm. Calculate its Rf value.