Daily Practice · GCSE Science
January 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1964Define the resolution of a measuring instrument.
- 2nd January 1964Two 4 ohm resistors are connected in series. Calculate the total resistance.
- 3rd January 1964Which type of radiation is stopped by a sheet of paper?
- 4th January 1964State Newton's First Law of Motion.
- 5th January 1964Two bar magnets are placed with their north poles facing each other. State what happens to the magnets.
- 6th January 1964State what is meant by red-shift.
- 7th January 1964Why does active transport require energy?
- 8th January 1964A student measures the mean diameter of a zone of inhibition as 12 mm. Calculate its radius.
- 9th January 1964Explain why breathing rate and breathing depth both increase during exercise.
- 10th January 1964In pea plants, purple flower colour (allele H) is dominant over white flower colour (allele h). State the phenotype of a plant with genotype Hh.
- 11th January 1964Name one way to make a rate of reaction experiment more valid rather than simply more precise.
- 12th January 1964Define an isotope.
- 13th January 1964A sealed flask containing 12.0 g of reactants is shaken and a reaction occurs. What is the total mass afterwards?
- 14th January 1964State the two materials commonly used as inert electrodes in electrolysis, and explain why they must be inert.
- 15th January 1964Explain how a catalyst increases the rate of a reaction without being used up.
- 16th January 1964State the difference between a pure substance and a formulation.
- 17th January 1964Explain why burning a fuel can produce nitrogen oxides even if the fuel itself contains no nitrogen.
- 18th January 1964Name three renewable energy resources.
- 19th January 1964State the equation for density.
- 20th January 1964A resultant force of 45 N acts on an object of mass 9.0 kg. Calculate its acceleration. Use F = m x a.
- 21st January 1964Give one everyday example of a transverse wave and one everyday example of a longitudinal wave.
- 22nd January 1964State what happens to the orbital speed needed for a stable orbit as the orbital radius increases.
- 23rd January 1964Why is a stain such as iodine used when preparing a slide?
- 24th January 1964Give two adaptations of a red blood cell.
- 25th January 1964State three factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis.
- 26th January 1964Explain why type 1 diabetes is treated with insulin injections rather than tablets.
- 27th January 1964Explain why a pyramid of biomass is never wider at the top than at the bottom.
- 28th January 1964Explain, in terms of particle size, how reverse osmosis separates water from dissolved salt.
- 29th January 1964Define a covalent bond.
- 30th January 1964Explain why aluminium cannot be extracted from aluminium oxide by heating with carbon.
- 31st January 1964State the difference between a rechargeable cell and a non-rechargeable cell.