Daily Practice · GCSE Science
June 2001 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in June 2001, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in June 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2001State one difference between a moon and an artificial satellite.
- 2nd June 2001Define an undifferentiated cell.
- 3rd June 2001Which tissue transports water and mineral ions from the roots?
- 4th June 2001Give three uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis.
- 5th June 2001Define phenotype.
- 6th June 2001A peat bog covered an area of 850 hectares in 2015. By 2025, drainage for farmland had reduced the peat bog to 680 hectares. Calculate the percentage decrease in the area of the peat bog.
- 7th June 2001Explain why steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) is generally harder than pure iron.
- 8th June 2001Why do polymers have higher melting points than small molecules such as methane?
- 9th June 2001Complete: acid + metal carbonate gives ...
- 10th June 2001State the four factors that can increase the rate of a chemical reaction.
- 11th June 2001Name the type of biological molecule formed when amino acid monomers join together by condensation polymerisation.
- 12th June 2001State two long-term stores of carbon that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 13th June 2001By what factor does kinetic energy increase if speed is doubled?
- 14th June 2001Calculate the energy needed to melt 0.50 kg of a substance with a specific latent heat of fusion of 210000 J/kg.
- 15th June 2001Define the term 'half-life' of a radioactive isotope.
- 16th June 2001A radio wave has a wavelength of 3 m. Calculate its frequency, given that all electromagnetic waves travel at 3 x 10^8 m/s in a vacuum.
- 17th June 2001Explain why electricity is transmitted through the National Grid at a very high voltage rather than at the voltage used in homes.
- 18th June 2001Name the structure in a plant cell that controls the substances entering and leaving the cell.
- 19th June 2001Describe the positive result of the Biuret test.
- 20th June 2001What is tested during preclinical testing?
- 21st June 2001Name the chemical released at a synapse that carries the signal across the gap.
- 22nd June 2001Explain why deforestation to create land for cattle grazing can reduce biodiversity.
- 23rd June 2001Name two methods of desalinating seawater.
- 24th June 2001Name the giant covalent structure made of carbon in which each carbon atom is bonded to four others.
- 25th June 2001Why do companies prefer reactions with a high atom economy?
- 26th June 2001On a reaction profile diagram, the reactants are drawn at a higher energy level than the products. State whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 27th June 2001State two products, other than water, that can be formed during the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon.
- 28th June 2001Explain why the solvent level in the container must be below the pencil baseline.
- 29th June 2001In the specific heat capacity practical, why is the block insulated?
- 30th June 2001Describe the current-potential difference graph for a filament lamp.