Daily Practice · GCSE Science
September 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1983Calculate the gravitational potential energy gained by a 60 kg person climbing 5 m. (g = 9.8 N/kg)
- 2nd September 1983Two resistors are connected in parallel across a 12 V battery. State the potential difference across each resistor.
- 3rd September 1983A gas at 200 kPa occupies 3.0 cubic metres. It is compressed to 1.5 cubic metres at constant temperature. Calculate the new pressure.
- 4th September 1983A train travels at a constant velocity of 40 m/s for 3 minutes. Calculate the distance it travels, in km.
- 5th September 1983A microwave oven uses electromagnetic waves with a wavelength of 0.12 m. Calculate the frequency of these waves (speed of light = 3 x 10^8 m/s).
- 6th September 1983Put the following in order of increasing distance from the Sun: Mars, Venus, Saturn, Earth.
- 7th September 1983State three functions of mitosis.
- 8th September 1983What happens to guard cells when a plant is short of water?
- 9th September 1983Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 10th September 1983Name the three-domain system of classification, and name the scientist most associated with proposing it.
- 11th September 1983State one method used to try to maintain biodiversity.
- 12th September 1983Explain, using the reactivity series, why attaching blocks of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps prevent the steel from rusting.
- 13th September 1983Why is graphite soft and slippery?
- 14th September 1983Explain the difference between a strong acid and a concentrated acid.
- 15th September 1983A reaction between calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid produces 72 cm3 of carbon dioxide gas in 30 seconds. Calculate the mean rate of reaction.
- 16th September 1983State the functional group found in all alcohols.
- 17th September 1983Explain why the natural greenhouse effect is necessary for life on Earth, rather than being a purely harmful process.
- 18th September 1983Name four energy stores.
- 19th September 1983State the correct SI unit for density.
- 20th September 1983State one source of natural background radiation and one source of artificial (man-made) background radiation.
- 21st September 1983State what happens to the frequency of a wave when it is refracted as it passes into a different material.
- 22nd September 1983State two factors that increase the size of the potential difference induced in a coil.
- 23rd September 1983Convert 0.02 mm into micrometres (um).
- 24th September 1983What is an enzyme?
- 25th September 1983Describe phagocytosis.
- 26th September 1983Put these into the correct order for a reflex arc: motor neuron, receptor, effector, relay neuron, sensory neuron.
- 27th September 1983State one structural adaptation of a polar bear that helps it survive in a cold environment.
- 28th September 1983State one benefit of recycling metal rather than extracting new metal from its ore.
- 29th September 1983Name the three types of strong chemical bonding.
- 30th September 1983Give the formula for percentage yield.