Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1973In the disappearing cross required practical, state the dependent variable that is measured.
- 2nd December 1973Name the gas that relights a glowing splint.
- 3rd December 1973Name two gases that dissolve in atmospheric water droplets to cause acid rain.
- 4th December 1973Define power and give its unit.
- 5th December 1973Convert a density of 2.7 grams per cubic centimetre into kilograms per cubic metre.
- 6th December 1973A gardener pushes a mower with a force of 60 N through a distance of 8.0 m. Calculate the work done. Use W = F x s.
- 7th December 1973A water wave has a wavelength of 0.4 m and a frequency of 2.5 Hz. Calculate its speed.
- 8th December 1973Explain how elements heavier than iron, such as gold, are created and distributed through the universe.
- 9th December 1973Give one advantage of a light microscope over an electron microscope.
- 10th December 1973Name the blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
- 11th December 1973Name the organelle in a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.
- 12th December 1973State the type of diabetes in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.
- 13th December 1973Thermus aquaticus is a species of bacterium that lives in hot springs at temperatures that would kill most other organisms. State the name given to an organism that is adapted to survive in such extreme conditions.
- 14th December 1973Name one method used to sterilise fresh water during the production of potable water.
- 15th December 1973Why can an ionic compound conduct electricity when molten or dissolved but not when solid?
- 16th December 1973Write the word equation for the reaction between zinc and hydrochloric acid.
- 17th December 1973State the only substance produced when a hydrogen fuel cell reacts pure hydrogen with pure oxygen.
- 18th December 1973Describe the colour change seen when an alkene is shaken with bromine water.
- 19th December 1973State the approximate percentage of nitrogen in today's atmosphere.
- 20th December 1973A spring is compressed. Which energy store increases?
- 21st December 1973Give the colour and function of the earth wire.
- 22nd December 1973What observation showed the nucleus is positively charged and very small?
- 23rd December 1973State the name of the upward force acting on an object placed in a fluid.
- 24th December 1973A current-carrying wire experiences a force of 1.2 N when placed at right angles to a magnetic field of flux density 0.40 T, carrying a current of 6.0 A. Calculate the length of wire in the field.
- 25th December 1973A student measures 24 cubic centimetres of gas in 3 minutes. Calculate the rate.
- 26th December 1973Name the organ system responsible for breaking food down into small, soluble molecules.
- 27th December 1973Give one way of reducing the spread of malaria.
- 28th December 1973State one difference between nervous and hormonal coordination.
- 29th December 1973State what is meant by a selection pressure.
- 30th December 1973An atom has atomic number 9 and mass number 19. Calculate the number of neutrons.
- 31st December 1973Why do elements in the same group have similar chemical properties?