Daily Practice · GCSE Science
June 2000 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in June 2000, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in June 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2000Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 2nd June 2000Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 3rd June 2000A resultant force of 45 N acts on an object of mass 9.0 kg. Calculate its acceleration. Use F = m x a.
- 4th June 2000State the difference between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave.
- 5th June 2000Name the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.
- 6th June 2000Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 7th June 2000Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 8th June 2000State three factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis.
- 9th June 2000Explain why sweating cools the body down.
- 10th June 2000In a grassland food chain, the biomass of grass available is 8400 kg and the biomass transferred to the rabbits that eat it is 940 kg. Calculate the percentage efficiency of biomass transfer from grass to rabbits, to 3 significant figures.
- 11th June 2000Explain, in terms of particle size, how reverse osmosis separates water from dissolved salt.
- 12th June 2000Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
- 13th June 2000Explain why aluminium cannot be extracted from aluminium oxide by heating with carbon.
- 14th June 2000State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
- 15th June 2000Name the catalyst used when an alkene reacts with hydrogen to form an alkane.
- 16th June 2000Name three greenhouse gases.
- 17th June 2000A kettle transfers 360000 J of energy in 150 s. Calculate its power in watts.
- 18th June 2000Why is the live wire dangerous even when a device is switched off?
- 19th June 2000Describe the plum pudding model.
- 20th June 2000A force of 40 N is applied 0.25 m from a pivot. Calculate the moment.
- 21st June 2000A rectangular coil carrying a current is placed in a magnetic field, with its two long sides parallel to each other. Explain why the coil rotates rather than moving in a straight line.
- 22nd June 2000Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.
- 23rd June 2000Name the plant tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the leaves.
- 24th June 2000Define a communicable disease.
- 25th June 2000Define homeostasis.
- 26th June 2000Give one example of variation that is caused purely by the environment rather than by genes.
- 27th June 2000Explain, in terms of electrons, why reactivity decreases going down Group 7.
- 28th June 2000Explain why potassium is more reactive than sodium.
- 29th June 2000Calculate the number of moles in 88 g of carbon dioxide. (Mr = 44)
- 30th June 2000Explain, in terms of bonds, why breaking bonds is an endothermic process.