Daily Practice · GCSE Science
March 1994 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1994
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1994Write the word equation for the reaction between zinc and hydrochloric acid.
- 2nd March 1994State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
- 3rd March 1994Define the term 'homologous series'.
- 4th March 1994State the approximate percentage of nitrogen in today's atmosphere.
- 5th March 1994A spring is compressed. Which energy store increases?
- 6th March 1994Why is the live wire dangerous even when a device is switched off?
- 7th March 1994Describe the plum pudding model.
- 8th March 1994Write down the equation that links moment, force and distance.
- 9th March 1994A wire of length 0.20 m carries a current of 5.0 A at right angles to a magnetic field of flux density 0.60 T. Calculate the force on the wire.
- 10th March 1994Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.
- 11th March 1994Name the organ system responsible for breaking food down into small, soluble molecules.
- 12th March 1994Define a communicable disease.
- 13th March 1994Explain, in terms of blood vessels, how the skin helps to cool the body when it is too hot.
- 14th March 1994Define speciation.
- 15th March 1994An atom has atomic number 9 and mass number 19. Calculate the number of neutrons.
- 16th March 1994Explain why potassium is more reactive than sodium.
- 17th March 1994Calculate the number of moles in 88 g of carbon dioxide. (Mr = 44)
- 18th March 1994Give one everyday example of an endothermic process.
- 19th March 1994State the catalyst commonly used in the Haber process.
- 20th March 1994A solution gives a cream precipitate when acidified with dilute nitric acid and then treated with silver nitrate solution. Name the halide ion present.
- 21st March 1994A device transfers 4500 J in 90 s. Calculate its power.
- 22nd March 1994A current of 2.0 A flows through a resistor for 30 s. Calculate the charge that flows. Use Q = I x t.
- 23rd March 1994Why does a bicycle pump get warm when used?
- 24th March 1994Define the term 'vector quantity' and give one example.
- 25th March 1994Name the type of electromagnetic wave used to treat cancer by killing cells in a tumour, and state which part of the atom emits it.
- 26th March 1994State one difference between a moon and an artificial satellite.
- 27th March 1994What happens to the DNA before mitosis begins?
- 28th March 1994State two conditions that increase the rate of transpiration.
- 29th March 1994A lamp is moved from 15 cm to 30 cm away. What happens to the light intensity?
- 30th March 1994Define phenotype.
- 31st March 1994Name the biological process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converts it into carbon compounds in a plant.