Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1964State one method used to try to maintain biodiversity.
- 2nd November 1964Explain, using the reactivity series, why attaching blocks of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps prevent the steel from rusting.
- 3rd November 1964Why is graphite soft and slippery?
- 4th November 1964Explain the difference between a strong acid and a concentrated acid.
- 5th November 1964A reaction between calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid produces 72 cm3 of carbon dioxide gas in 30 seconds. Calculate the mean rate of reaction.
- 6th November 1964Name the two methods used to produce ethanol industrially.
- 7th November 1964Explain why the natural greenhouse effect is necessary for life on Earth, rather than being a purely harmful process.
- 8th November 1964Name four energy stores.
- 9th November 1964State the correct SI unit for density.
- 10th November 1964State one source of natural background radiation and one source of artificial (man-made) background radiation.
- 11th November 1964State whether sound waves are transverse or longitudinal.
- 12th November 1964State the name of the component at the centre of a transformer's primary and secondary coils, and state its purpose.
- 13th November 1964Convert 0.02 mm into micrometres (um).
- 14th November 1964What is an enzyme?
- 15th November 1964Describe phagocytosis.
- 16th November 1964State why a reflex action is described as involuntary.
- 17th November 1964A student counts 3, 5, 4 and 8 dandelion plants in four separate 1 m^2 quadrats. Calculate the mean number of dandelions per quadrat.
- 18th November 1964State one benefit of recycling metal rather than extracting new metal from its ore.
- 19th November 1964Name the three types of strong chemical bonding.
- 20th November 1964Give the formula for percentage yield.
- 21st November 1964A student reacts excess zinc powder with 25 cm3 of copper sulfate solution in a polystyrene cup. The starting temperature is 21.0 degrees C and the maximum temperature reached is 58.5 degrees C. Calculate the temperature change.
- 22nd November 1964State what happens to the boiling point of hydrocarbons as their chain length increases.
- 23rd November 1964State two advantages of instrumental methods of analysis, such as GC-MS, compared with manual chemical tests.
- 24th November 1964Distinguish repeatability from reproducibility.
- 25th November 1964How does the resistance of a thermistor change as it gets hotter?
- 26th November 1964What is an alpha particle made of?
- 27th November 1964A skateboarder of mass 55 kg moving at 4 m/s collides with and grabs onto a stationary shopping trolley of mass 20 kg, and they move off together. Calculate their combined velocity immediately after the collision.
- 28th November 1964Describe the shape of the magnetic field produced around a long straight wire carrying a current.
- 29th November 1964State how the amount of red-shift is related to a galaxy's distance from Earth.
- 30th November 1964Explain why a plant cell placed in pure water does not burst.