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September 1982 5-a-day

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September 1982

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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

  1. 1st September 1982Calculate the Mr of Ca(OH)2. (Ca = 40, O = 16, H = 1)
  2. 2nd September 1982Concentrated sodium chloride solution (brine) is electrolysed using inert electrodes. State the products formed at the cathode and at the anode.
  3. 3rd September 1982Explain why increasing temperature increases the rate of a reaction, referring to both the frequency and the energy of collisions.
  4. 4th September 1982Which reagent is added, and in what colour change, to test for chlorine gas?
  5. 5th September 1982Explain how solid carbon particulates released by combustion can cause global dimming.
  6. 6th September 1982A lamp is supplied with 60 J and transfers 6 J as light. Calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
  7. 7th September 1982Define specific latent heat of fusion.
  8. 8th September 1982Calculate the weight of an object of mass 8.0 kg on Earth, where g = 9.8 N/kg.
  9. 9th September 1982Sound 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.
  10. 10th September 1982State the eventual fate of a star with a much greater mass than the Sun, after it explodes as a supernova.
  11. 11th September 1982Give the equation linking magnification, image size and real size.
  12. 12th September 1982Give one advantage and one disadvantage of a stent.
  13. 13th September 1982Name the gas that is released as a product of photosynthesis.
  14. 14th September 1982Name the gland often called the body's master gland.
  15. 15th September 1982State what is meant by the term ecosystem.
  16. 16th September 1982Explain why potable water is not required to be chemically pure.
  17. 17th September 1982Describe metallic bonding.
  18. 18th September 1982State the name given to a reaction in which a substance loses electrons.
  19. 19th September 1982State whether breaking a chemical bond requires energy or releases energy.
  20. 20th September 1982State the number of covalent bonds a carbon atom forms in a saturated hydrocarbon.
  21. 21st September 1982Give two processes that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
  22. 22nd September 1982Calculate the kinetic energy of a 2.0 kg trolley moving at 4.0 m/s.
  23. 23rd September 1982Why does the national grid transmit electricity at a very high potential difference?
  24. 24th September 1982Why is the atomic model a good example of how scientific models change?
  25. 25th September 1982State the equation that links pressure, force and area.
  26. 26th September 1982In a simple d.c. electric motor, state the name and function of the component that reverses the current in the coil every half turn.
  27. 27th September 1982Define the independent variable.
  28. 28th September 1982Explain why the rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction decreases sharply above the enzyme's optimum temperature.
  29. 29th September 1982Name the type of pathogen that causes malaria.
  30. 30th September 1982Name the gland that monitors and controls blood glucose concentration.