Daily Practice · GCSE Science
May 1996 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1996How does the resistance of a thermistor change as it gets hotter?
- 2nd May 1996What is an alpha particle made of?
- 3rd May 1996State Newton's First Law of Motion.
- 4th May 1996Two bar magnets are placed with their north poles facing each other. State what happens to the magnets.
- 5th May 1996State what is meant by red-shift.
- 6th May 1996Explain why a plant cell placed in pure water does not burst.
- 7th May 1996A student measures the mean diameter of a zone of inhibition as 12 mm. Calculate its radius.
- 8th May 1996Explain why breathing rate and breathing depth both increase during exercise.
- 9th May 1996In pea plants, purple flower colour (allele H) is dominant over white flower colour (allele h). State the phenotype of a plant with genotype Hh.
- 10th May 1996In the rate experiment where a cross disappears, why is the result subjective?
- 11th May 1996An atom has an atomic number of 17 and a mass number of 37. How many neutrons does it have?
- 12th May 1996Calculate the number of moles in 20 g of calcium carbonate. (Mr = 100)
- 13th May 1996State the two materials commonly used as inert electrodes in electrolysis, and explain why they must be inert.
- 14th May 1996Explain how a catalyst increases the rate of a reaction without being used up.
- 15th May 1996A solid gives a lilac flame test. Name the metal ion present.
- 16th May 1996Name the two additional products that can form during the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel.
- 17th May 1996Give the equation for efficiency in terms of energy.
- 18th May 1996Calculate the mass of 0.5 cubic metres of a material of density 2400 kilograms per cubic metre.
- 19th May 1996A resultant force of 45 N acts on an object of mass 9.0 kg. Calculate its acceleration. Use F = m x a.
- 20th May 1996Give one everyday example of a transverse wave and one everyday example of a longitudinal wave.
- 21st May 1996State what happens to the orbital speed needed for a stable orbit as the orbital radius increases.
- 22nd May 1996State the function of the mitochondria.
- 23rd May 1996Which component of blood transports carbon dioxide, urea and hormones?
- 24th May 1996State three factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis.
- 25th May 1996Explain why type 1 diabetes is treated with insulin injections rather than tablets.
- 26th May 1996A student places ten 1 m x 1 m quadrats at random across a school field of area 3000 m2 and counts a total of 45 dandelions across all ten quadrats. Estimate the total number of dandelions on the field.
- 27th May 1996Explain, in terms of particle size, how reverse osmosis separates water from dissolved salt.
- 28th May 1996Why can metals conduct electricity when solid?
- 29th May 1996Explain why aluminium cannot be extracted from aluminium oxide by heating with carbon.
- 30th May 1996State whether forming a new chemical bond requires energy or releases energy.
- 31st May 1996Name the alkene with the molecular formula C4H8.