Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1966A gas is heated in a sealed rigid container. Explain what happens to the pressure.
- 2nd November 1966On a velocity-time graph, what does the area between the line and the time axis represent?
- 3rd November 1966State the speed of all electromagnetic waves travelling through a vacuum.
- 4th November 1966State the name of the force that keeps a satellite in orbit around the Earth.
- 5th November 1966Define an undifferentiated cell.
- 6th November 1966Which tissue transports water and mineral ions from the roots?
- 7th November 1966Give three uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis.
- 8th November 1966A plant grown in the shade is shorter than a genetically identical plant of the same species grown in full sunlight. State whether this difference is genetic variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 9th November 1966A peat bog covered an area of 850 hectares in 2015. By 2025, drainage for farmland had reduced the peat bog to 680 hectares. Calculate the percentage decrease in the area of the peat bog.
- 10th November 1966Explain why steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) is generally harder than pure iron.
- 11th November 1966Why do polymers have higher melting points than small molecules such as methane?
- 12th November 1966Complete: acid + metal carbonate gives ...
- 13th November 1966State the four factors that can increase the rate of a chemical reaction.
- 14th November 1966Name the small molecule typically released as a by-product during condensation polymerisation.
- 15th November 1966Describe, in terms of wavelength, the difference between the radiation the Earth receives from the Sun and the radiation it re-emits from its surface.
- 16th November 1966By what factor does kinetic energy increase if speed is doubled?
- 17th November 1966State what happens to the internal energy of a substance as it is heated, in terms of the kinetic and potential energy of its particles.
- 18th November 1966Define the term 'half-life' of a radioactive isotope.
- 19th November 1966A water wave has a frequency of 4 Hz and a wavelength of 0.5 m. Calculate its speed.
- 20th November 1966A transformer's primary coil is connected to a 12 V supply and has 60 turns. Calculate the number of turns needed on the secondary coil to produce an output of 3.0 V.
- 21st November 1966A microscope has a x10 eyepiece lens and a x20 objective lens. Calculate the total magnification.
- 22nd November 1966Describe the positive result of the Biuret test.
- 23rd November 1966What is tested during preclinical testing?
- 24th November 1966Define a synapse.
- 25th November 1966Give one example of an abiotic factor that could affect where a plant species grows.
- 26th November 1966Explain why potable water is not the same as pure water.
- 27th November 1966Explain why sodium chloride conducts electricity when molten but not when solid.
- 28th November 1966Why do companies prefer reactions with a high atom economy?
- 29th November 1966On a reaction profile diagram, the reactants are drawn at a higher energy level than the products. State whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 30th November 1966State the general formula of the alkanes.