Daily Practice · GCSE Science
June 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1966Explain the difference between a strong acid and a concentrated acid.
- 2nd June 1966A reaction between calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid produces 72 cm3 of carbon dioxide gas in 30 seconds. Calculate the mean rate of reaction.
- 3rd June 1966Name the carboxylic acid produced when ethanol is oxidised.
- 4th June 1966State two long-term stores of carbon that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 5th June 1966Name four energy stores.
- 6th June 1966Calculate the energy needed to melt 0.50 kg of a substance with a specific latent heat of fusion of 210000 J/kg.
- 7th June 1966State one source of natural background radiation and one source of artificial (man-made) background radiation.
- 8th June 1966Define the term 'wavelength' of a wave.
- 9th June 1966State the difference between an alternator and a dynamo.
- 10th June 1966Name the structure in a plant cell that controls the substances entering and leaving the cell.
- 11th June 1966What is an enzyme?
- 12th June 1966Describe phagocytosis.
- 13th June 1966State the type of effector that produces a physical response by contracting.
- 14th June 1966Give one example of a biotic factor that could affect a population of rabbits.
- 15th June 1966Name two methods of desalinating seawater.
- 16th June 1966Name the giant covalent structure made of carbon in which each carbon atom is bonded to four others.
- 17th June 1966Give the formula for percentage yield.
- 18th June 1966A 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.
- 19th June 1966Balance the equation for the complete combustion of methane: CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O
- 20th June 1966State two advantages of instrumental methods of analysis, such as GC-MS, compared with manual chemical tests.
- 21st June 1966Distinguish repeatability from reproducibility.
- 22nd June 1966How does the resistance of a thermistor change as it gets hotter?
- 23rd June 1966What is an alpha particle made of?
- 24th June 1966State two factors that increase a driver's thinking distance.
- 25th June 1966Name a typical material used to make a permanent magnet, and a typical material used to make an induced (temporary) magnet.
- 26th June 1966State, in one sentence, what the Big Bang model proposes about the early universe.
- 27th June 1966Explain why a plant cell placed in pure water does not burst.
- 28th June 1966Describe how phagocytes destroy pathogens in the body.
- 29th June 1966A yeast culture respires without oxygen. Name the two products of this reaction, and name one industrial process that relies on it.
- 30th June 1966A 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.