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April 1964 5-a-day

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April 1964

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 1964

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 1964State one ethical concern raised by embryo screening.
  2. 2nd April 1964What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
  3. 3rd April 1964What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
  4. 4th April 1964Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
  5. 5th April 1964State the name given to the negative electrode in electrolysis.
  6. 6th April 1964Explain why using a light sensor and data logger is more reliable than timing by eye in the disappearing cross practical.
  7. 7th April 1964Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
  8. 8th April 1964Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
  9. 9th April 1964Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
  10. 10th April 1964Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
  11. 11th April 1964A cyclist rides 300 m north then 300 m back south to the start. State the total distance travelled and total displacement.
  12. 12th April 1964Explain, in terms of particle motion, why a wave can transfer energy without transferring matter.
  13. 13th April 1964Name the region of the Solar System where most asteroids are found.
  14. 14th April 1964Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
  15. 15th April 1964Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
  16. 16th April 1964A lamp is placed 10 cm from pondweed. Calculate the relative light intensity using relative light intensity = 1 / distance^2.
  17. 17th April 1964A person's blood glucose concentration is 4.8 mmol/dm^3 before breakfast and 7.2 mmol/dm^3 after breakfast. Calculate the increase in blood glucose concentration.
  18. 18th April 1964In a grassland food chain, the biomass of grass available is 8400 kg and the biomass transferred to the rabbits that eat it is 940 kg. Calculate the percentage efficiency of biomass transfer from grass to rabbits, to 3 significant figures.
  19. 19th April 1964Classify crude oil as finite or renewable, and justify your answer.
  20. 20th April 1964Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
  21. 21st April 1964Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in 200 cm3 of a 0.500 mol/dm3 solution.
  22. 22nd April 1964State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
  23. 23rd April 1964Propene (C3H6) reacts with steam in the presence of a catalyst. Name the catalyst, and name the type of compound formed.
  24. 24th April 1964Give two human activities that increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
  25. 25th April 1964A 5.0 kg object is lifted 3.0 m. Calculate its gain in gravitational potential energy (g = 9.8 N/kg).
  26. 26th April 1964Why is the live wire dangerous even when a device is switched off?
  27. 27th April 1964Describe the plum pudding model.
  28. 28th April 1964State two factors, other than depth, that affect the pressure at a given point in a liquid.
  29. 29th April 1964State the name of the rule used to find the direction of the force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field, and name the three quantities it relates.
  30. 30th April 1964Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.