Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 1982 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1982
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1982Name three non-specific defences of the human body.
- 2nd November 1982State why a reflex action is described as involuntary.
- 3rd November 1982A student counts 3, 5, 4 and 8 dandelion plants in four separate 1 m^2 quadrats. Calculate the mean number of dandelions per quadrat.
- 4th November 1982Define a finite resource, giving one example.
- 5th November 1982State one reason why simple covalent substances such as chlorine have low melting points.
- 6th November 1982Convert a concentration of 0.20 moles per cubic decimetre of NaOH into grams per cubic decimetre. (Mr = 40)
- 7th November 1982State the energy transfer that occurs during an exothermic reaction.
- 8th November 1982State what happens to the boiling point of hydrocarbons as their chain length increases.
- 9th November 1982In a chromatography experiment, a dye spot travels 4.5 cm and the solvent front travels 6.0 cm. Calculate its Rf value.
- 10th November 1982Define the resolution of a measuring instrument.
- 11th November 1982Two 4 ohm resistors are connected in series. Calculate the total resistance.
- 12th November 1982Which type of radiation is stopped by a sheet of paper?
- 13th November 1982A skateboarder of mass 55 kg moving at 4 m/s collides with and grabs onto a stationary shopping trolley of mass 20 kg, and they move off together. Calculate their combined velocity immediately after the collision.
- 14th November 1982Describe the shape of the magnetic field produced around a long straight wire carrying a current.
- 15th November 1982State how the amount of red-shift is related to a galaxy's distance from Earth.
- 16th November 1982Why does active transport require energy?
- 17th November 1982A student measures the mean diameter of a zone of inhibition as 12 mm. Calculate its radius.
- 18th November 1982State the word equation for anaerobic respiration in human muscle cells.
- 19th November 1982State whether cystic fibrosis is caused by a dominant or a recessive allele.
- 20th November 1982Name one way to make a rate of reaction experiment more valid rather than simply more precise.
- 21st November 1982Define an isotope.
- 22nd November 1982A sealed flask containing 12.0 g of reactants is shaken and a reaction occurs. What is the total mass afterwards?
- 23rd November 1982Aqueous copper sulfate solution is electrolysed using inert graphite electrodes. State the products formed at (a) the cathode and (b) the anode, giving a reason for each.
- 24th November 1982In the disappearing cross required practical, state the dependent variable that is measured.
- 25th November 1982State the difference between a pure substance and a formulation.
- 26th November 1982Explain why burning a fuel can produce nitrogen oxides even if the fuel itself contains no nitrogen.
- 27th November 1982Name three renewable energy resources.
- 28th November 1982State the equation for density.
- 29th November 1982A resultant force of 45 N acts on an object of mass 9.0 kg. Calculate its acceleration. Use F = m x a.
- 30th November 1982A water wave has a wavelength of 0.4 m and a frequency of 2.5 Hz. Calculate its speed.