Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1976Explain why using a light sensor and data logger is more reliable than timing by eye in the disappearing cross practical.
- 2nd November 1976Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 3rd November 1976Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 4th November 1976Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 5th November 1976Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 6th November 1976A box has a driving force of 250 N forward and friction of 180 N backward. Calculate the resultant force, including its direction.
- 7th November 1976Explain, in terms of particle motion, why a wave can transfer energy without transferring matter.
- 8th November 1976Name the region of the Solar System where most asteroids are found.
- 9th November 1976Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 10th November 1976Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 11th November 1976Explain why anaerobic respiration releases much less energy per glucose molecule than aerobic respiration.
- 12th November 1976A person's blood glucose concentration is 4.8 mmol/dm^3 before breakfast and 7.2 mmol/dm^3 after breakfast. Calculate the increase in blood glucose concentration.
- 13th November 1976In a grassland food chain, the biomass of grass available is 8400 kg and the biomass transferred to the rabbits that eat it is 940 kg. Calculate the percentage efficiency of biomass transfer from grass to rabbits, to 3 significant figures.
- 14th November 1976State what is meant by sustainable development.
- 15th November 1976Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
- 16th November 1976State the pH value of a neutral solution.
- 17th November 1976State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
- 18th November 1976Propene (C3H6) reacts with steam in the presence of a catalyst. Name the catalyst, and name the type of compound formed.
- 19th November 1976Explain, in terms of infrared radiation, how greenhouse gases keep the Earth warm.
- 20th November 1976A motor is supplied with 800 J of energy and wastes 240 J as heat. Calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
- 21st November 1976Why is the live wire dangerous even when a device is switched off?
- 22nd November 1976Describe the plum pudding model.
- 23rd November 1976State two factors, other than depth, that affect the pressure at a given point in a liquid.
- 24th November 1976State the name of the rule used to find the direction of the force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field, and name the three quantities it relates.
- 25th November 1976Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.
- 26th November 1976An amylase reaction is complete after 200 seconds. Calculate the rate of reaction using rate = 1000 / time.
- 27th November 1976Define a communicable disease.
- 28th November 1976State what is meant by negative feedback.
- 29th November 1976Name the scientist who proposed the three-domain system of classification, and name the three domains.
- 30th November 1976An atom has atomic number 11 and mass number 23. State the number of protons.