Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1966Explain why the solvent level in the container must be below the pencil baseline.
- 2nd December 1966In the specific heat capacity practical, why is the block insulated?
- 3rd December 1966Describe the current-potential difference graph for a filament lamp.
- 4th December 1966State the difference between irradiation and contamination.
- 5th December 1966Calculate the momentum of a 1200 kg car travelling at 18 m/s.
- 6th December 1966Explain why a compass needle placed just outside one end of a current-carrying solenoid lines up parallel to the solenoid's axis.
- 7th December 1966Name the second major piece of observational evidence, besides red-shift, that supports the Big Bang model.
- 8th December 1966Name the process that moves substances against a concentration gradient.
- 9th December 1966Explain why a small number of healthy volunteers are given a very low dose of a new drug in the first stage of a clinical trial.
- 10th December 1966A student counts 19 pulse beats in 10 seconds immediately after running. Calculate her heart rate in beats per minute.
- 11th December 1966State how many chromosomes are found in a normal human body cell, and how they are arranged.
- 12th December 1966Why is the burette rinsed with the solution it is going to contain rather than with water?
- 13th December 1966State the relative mass and relative charge of a neutron.
- 14th December 1966Calculate the Mr of Ca(OH)2. (Ca = 40, O = 16, H = 1)
- 15th December 1966In the industrial extraction of aluminium, explain why the carbon anodes need to be replaced regularly.
- 16th December 1966State the condition, in terms of energy, that colliding particles must meet for a reaction to occur.
- 17th December 1966Which reagent is added, and in what colour change, to test for chlorine gas?
- 18th December 1966Explain how solid carbon particulates released by combustion can cause global dimming.
- 19th December 1966A lamp is supplied with 60 J and transfers 6 J as light. Calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
- 20th December 1966Define specific latent heat of fusion.
- 21st December 1966A cyclist rides 300 m north then 300 m back south to the start. State the total distance travelled and total displacement.
- 22nd December 1966A wave has a period of 0.005 s. Calculate its frequency.
- 23rd December 1966State the difference between a natural satellite and an artificial satellite, and give one example of each.
- 24th December 1966Give the equation linking magnification, image size and real size.
- 25th December 1966Give one advantage and one disadvantage of a stent.
- 26th December 1966A lamp is placed 10 cm from pondweed. Calculate the relative light intensity using relative light intensity = 1 / distance^2.
- 27th December 1966Name the hormone that causes the liver to convert stored glycogen back into glucose.
- 28th December 1966State what is meant by the term ecosystem.
- 29th December 1966Classify crude oil as finite or renewable, and justify your answer.
- 30th December 1966Describe metallic bonding.
- 31st December 1966Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in 200 cm3 of a 0.500 mol/dm3 solution.