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April 1970 5-a-day

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April 1970

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 1970

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 1970Radium-226 (atomic number 88) decays by alpha emission. State the atomic number of the nucleus formed.
  2. 2nd April 1970State whether sound waves are transverse or longitudinal.
  3. 3rd April 1970State the name of the component at the centre of a transformer's primary and secondary coils, and state its purpose.
  4. 4th April 1970Convert 0.02 mm into micrometres (um).
  5. 5th April 1970Explain what happens to an enzyme above its optimum temperature.
  6. 6th April 1970Name three non-specific defences of the human body.
  7. 7th April 1970State why a reflex action is described as involuntary.
  8. 8th April 1970A student counts 3, 5, 4 and 8 dandelion plants in four separate 1 m^2 quadrats. Calculate the mean number of dandelions per quadrat.
  9. 9th April 1970State one benefit of recycling metal rather than extracting new metal from its ore.
  10. 10th April 1970Name the three types of strong chemical bonding.
  11. 11th April 1970Convert a concentration of 0.20 moles per cubic decimetre of NaOH into grams per cubic decimetre. (Mr = 40)
  12. 12th April 1970State the energy transfer that occurs during an exothermic reaction.
  13. 13th April 1970State what happens to the boiling point of hydrocarbons as their chain length increases.
  14. 14th April 1970In a chromatography experiment, a dye spot travels 4.5 cm and the solvent front travels 6.0 cm. Calculate its Rf value.
  15. 15th April 1970Define the resolution of a measuring instrument.
  16. 16th April 1970Two 4 ohm resistors are connected in series. Calculate the total resistance.
  17. 17th April 1970Which type of radiation is stopped by a sheet of paper?
  18. 18th April 1970A 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.
  19. 19th April 1970Describe the shape of the magnetic field produced around a long straight wire carrying a current.
  20. 20th April 1970State how the amount of red-shift is related to a galaxy's distance from Earth.
  21. 21st April 1970Why does active transport require energy?
  22. 22nd April 1970State one way that pathogens can be spread from person to person.
  23. 23rd April 1970State the word equation for anaerobic respiration in human muscle cells.
  24. 24th April 1970State whether cystic fibrosis is caused by a dominant or a recessive allele.
  25. 25th April 1970Name one way to make a rate of reaction experiment more valid rather than simply more precise.
  26. 26th April 1970Define an isotope.
  27. 27th April 1970A sealed flask containing 12.0 g of reactants is shaken and a reaction occurs. What is the total mass afterwards?
  28. 28th April 1970Aqueous copper sulfate solution is electrolysed using inert graphite electrodes. State the products formed at (a) the cathode and (b) the anode, giving a reason for each.
  29. 29th April 1970In the disappearing cross required practical, state the dependent variable that is measured.
  30. 30th April 1970State the difference between a pure substance and a formulation.