Daily Practice · GCSE Science
September 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1964Balance the equation for the complete combustion of methane: CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O
- 2nd September 1964Explain why the baseline is drawn in pencil rather than ink.
- 3rd September 1964Give one reason for taking the gradient from the line of best fit rather than from two data points.
- 4th September 1964State the equation linking potential difference, current and resistance.
- 5th September 1964Define half-life.
- 6th September 1964State two factors that increase a driver's thinking distance.
- 7th September 1964Name a typical material used to make a permanent magnet, and a typical material used to make an induced (temporary) magnet.
- 8th September 1964State, in one sentence, what the Big Bang model proposes about the early universe.
- 9th September 1964Define osmosis.
- 10th September 1964Which type of pathogen causes athlete's foot, a fungal skin infection?
- 11th September 1964A yeast culture respires without oxygen. Name the two products of this reaction, and name one industrial process that relies on it.
- 12th September 1964A 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.
- 13th September 1964A gas syringe collects 48 cubic centimetres of gas in 40 seconds. Calculate the mean rate.
- 14th September 1964Why do isotopes of an element react in the same way?
- 15th September 1964Calculate the Mr of calcium carbonate, CaCO3. (Ca = 40, C = 12, O = 16)
- 16th September 1964Concentrated sodium chloride solution (brine) is electrolysed using inert electrodes. State the products formed at the cathode and at the anode.
- 17th September 1964Explain why increasing temperature increases the rate of a reaction, referring to both the frequency and the energy of collisions.
- 18th September 1964State the reagent added, and the result, that shows a white solid contains sulfate ions.
- 19th September 1964State the two products of the complete combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel.
- 20th September 1964State one way to increase the efficiency of a motor.
- 21st September 1964Why is the density of a gas much lower than that of the same substance as a liquid?
- 22nd September 1964A box has a driving force of 250 N forward and friction of 180 N backward. Calculate the resultant force, including its direction.
- 23rd September 1964Sound 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.
- 24th September 1964State the eventual fate of a star with a much greater mass than the Sun, after it explodes as a supernova.
- 25th September 1964Name two structures found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 26th September 1964Why is the wall of the left ventricle thicker than that of the right ventricle?
- 27th September 1964Explain why anaerobic respiration releases much less energy per glucose molecule than aerobic respiration.
- 28th September 1964Name the gland often called the body's master gland.
- 29th September 1964State one abiotic factor that can affect the population of fish living in a pond.
- 30th September 1964State what is meant by sustainable development.