Daily Practice · GCSE Science
January 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1986Define the resolution of a measuring instrument.
- 2nd January 1986Two 4 ohm resistors are connected in series. Calculate the total resistance.
- 3rd January 1986Which type of radiation is stopped by a sheet of paper?
- 4th January 1986A resultant force of 60 N acts on a wheelbarrow of mass 15 kg. Calculate its acceleration.
- 5th January 1986State the difference between a permanent magnet and an induced magnet.
- 6th January 1986State whether a galaxy moving towards Earth would show a red-shift or a blue-shift in its light.
- 7th January 1986Why does active transport require energy?
- 8th January 1986Name the vector that spreads the protist pathogen that causes malaria.
- 9th January 1986State two things excess glucose can be converted into for storage in the human body.
- 10th January 1986Define homozygous.
- 11th January 1986Name one way to make a rate of reaction experiment more valid rather than simply more precise.
- 12th January 1986Define an isotope.
- 13th January 1986A sealed flask containing 12.0 g of reactants is shaken and a reaction occurs. What is the total mass afterwards?
- 14th January 1986Molten zinc chloride, ZnCl2, is electrolysed using inert electrodes. Write the half equation for the reaction at (a) the cathode, and (b) the anode.
- 15th January 1986A tangent drawn to a volume-time graph at 15 seconds passes through the points (5 s, 6 cm3) and (25 s, 66 cm3). Calculate the rate of reaction at 15 seconds.
- 16th January 1986State the difference between a pure substance and a formulation.
- 17th January 1986Explain why burning a fuel can produce nitrogen oxides even if the fuel itself contains no nitrogen.
- 18th January 1986Name three renewable energy resources.
- 19th January 1986State the equation for density.
- 20th January 1986A gardener pushes a mower with a force of 60 N through a distance of 8.0 m. Calculate the work done. Use W = F x s.
- 21st January 1986State the difference between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave.
- 22nd January 1986Name the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.
- 23rd January 1986Why is a stain such as iodine used when preparing a slide?
- 24th January 1986Give two adaptations of a red blood cell.
- 25th January 1986Name the organelle in a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.
- 26th January 1986Explain why sweating cools the body down.
- 27th January 1986Explain why a pyramid of biomass is never wider at the top than at the bottom.
- 28th January 1986Name one method used to sterilise fresh water during the production of potable water.
- 29th January 1986Define a covalent bond.
- 30th January 1986Write the word equation for the reaction between zinc and hydrochloric acid.
- 31st January 1986State the difference between a rechargeable cell and a non-rechargeable cell.