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November 1971 5-a-day

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November 1971

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1971Name three non-specific defences of the human body.
  2. 2nd November 1971State the type of effector that produces a physical response by contracting.
  3. 3rd November 1971Give one example of a biotic factor that could affect a population of rabbits.
  4. 4th November 1971Name two methods of desalinating seawater.
  5. 5th November 1971Name the giant covalent structure made of carbon in which each carbon atom is bonded to four others.
  6. 6th November 1971Convert a concentration of 0.20 moles per cubic decimetre of NaOH into grams per cubic decimetre. (Mr = 40)
  7. 7th November 1971State the energy transfer that occurs during an exothermic reaction.
  8. 8th November 1971Balance the equation for the complete combustion of methane: CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O
  9. 9th November 1971In a chromatography experiment, a dye spot travels 4.5 cm and the solvent front travels 6.0 cm. Calculate its Rf value.
  10. 10th November 1971Define the resolution of a measuring instrument.
  11. 11th November 1971Two 4 ohm resistors are connected in series. Calculate the total resistance.
  12. 12th November 1971Which type of radiation is stopped by a sheet of paper?
  13. 13th November 1971State two factors that increase a driver's thinking distance.
  14. 14th November 1971Name a typical material used to make a permanent magnet, and a typical material used to make an induced (temporary) magnet.
  15. 15th November 1971State, in one sentence, what the Big Bang model proposes about the early universe.
  16. 16th November 1971Why does active transport require energy?
  17. 17th November 1971Describe how phagocytes destroy pathogens in the body.
  18. 18th November 1971A yeast culture respires without oxygen. Name the two products of this reaction, and name one industrial process that relies on it.
  19. 19th November 1971A 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.
  20. 20th November 1971Name one way to make a rate of reaction experiment more valid rather than simply more precise.
  21. 21st November 1971Define an isotope.
  22. 22nd November 1971A sealed flask containing 12.0 g of reactants is shaken and a reaction occurs. What is the total mass afterwards?
  23. 23rd November 1971Concentrated sodium chloride solution (brine) is electrolysed using inert electrodes. State the products formed at the cathode and at the anode.
  24. 24th November 1971Explain why increasing temperature increases the rate of a reaction, referring to both the frequency and the energy of collisions.
  25. 25th November 1971State the difference between a pure substance and a formulation.
  26. 26th November 1971Explain why burning a fuel can produce nitrogen oxides even if the fuel itself contains no nitrogen.
  27. 27th November 1971Name three renewable energy resources.
  28. 28th November 1971State the equation for density.
  29. 29th November 1971Calculate the weight of an object of mass 8.0 kg on Earth, where g = 9.8 N/kg.
  30. 30th November 1971Sound waves travel through a steel rail at approximately 5900 m/s. A sound wave sent along the rail has a frequency of 2950 Hz. Calculate its wavelength.