Daily Practice · GCSE Science
September 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1976State the approximate radius of a nucleus compared with the radius of an atom.
- 2nd September 1976A spanner is used to loosen a bolt. Explain why using a longer spanner makes it easier to loosen the bolt.
- 3rd September 1976State two ways of increasing the force produced by a motor effect setup, for a wire of fixed length at a fixed angle to the field.
- 4th September 1976State the difference between resolution and accuracy.
- 5th September 1976Name the organ system responsible for breaking food down into small, soluble molecules.
- 6th September 1976How do bacteria make a person feel ill?
- 7th September 1976Name the hormone released when blood glucose concentration is too high, and state its overall effect.
- 8th September 1976Define mutation.
- 9th September 1976An atom has atomic number 9 and mass number 19. Calculate the number of neutrons.
- 10th September 1976On what property are elements ordered in the modern periodic table?
- 11th September 1976In the equation 2H2 + O2 gives 2H2O, how many moles of water are formed from 3 mol of hydrogen?
- 12th September 1976Give one everyday example of an endothermic process.
- 13th September 1976The forward reaction of a particular reversible reaction is exothermic. State whether the reverse reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 14th September 1976Why must dilute nitric acid be added before silver nitrate solution when testing for a halide ion?
- 15th September 1976State the equation for work done.
- 16th September 1976A current of 2.0 A flows through a resistor for 30 s. Calculate the charge that flows. Use Q = I x t.
- 17th September 1976State the relationship between pressure and volume for a fixed mass of gas at constant temperature.
- 18th September 1976State what the gradient of a distance-time graph represents.
- 19th September 1976Explain why ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays can be hazardous to human health, but radio waves are not.
- 20th September 1976Explain, in terms of forces, why a satellite in a stable orbit does not fall towards the Earth or fly off into space.
- 21st September 1976Where in a plant are stem cells found?
- 22nd September 1976Name the process by which dissolved sugars are transported in the phloem.
- 23rd September 1976Why is photosynthesis described as endothermic?
- 24th September 1976In pea plants, the allele for tall stems (T) is dominant over the allele for short stems (t). A homozygous tall plant (TT) is crossed with a homozygous short plant (tt). State the genotype and phenotype of all the offspring.
- 25th September 1976State one human activity that reduces the amount of land available for other organisms.
- 26th September 1976State the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 27th September 1976State the size range of a nanoparticle.
- 28th September 1976Why is aluminium extracted by electrolysis rather than by reduction with carbon?
- 29th September 1976Explain, using collision theory, why increasing the concentration of a reactant in solution increases the rate of a reaction.
- 30th September 1976State what happens to the carbon-to-carbon double bond of an alkene monomer during addition polymerisation.