Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 2001 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in December 2001, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in December 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2001State the difference between an antibiotic and a painkiller.
- 2nd December 2001Explain why reflex responses are faster than voluntary responses.
- 3rd December 2001Define community, in ecological terms.
- 4th December 2001Explain why potable water is not the same as pure water.
- 5th December 2001Explain why sodium chloride conducts electricity when molten but not when solid.
- 6th December 2001Convert 250 cubic centimetres into cubic decimetres.
- 7th December 2001A student heats solid copper carbonate strongly in a test tube, and it breaks down into copper oxide and carbon dioxide. Heating must be continued throughout the reaction for it to keep going. State whether this thermal decomposition reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain your reasoning.
- 8th December 2001Name the two industrial methods of cracking.
- 9th December 2001Write the formula for calculating an Rf value.
- 10th December 2001Readings have a mean of 20.0 cm and a range of 1.0 cm. Calculate the percentage uncertainty.
- 11th December 2001What happens to the total resistance when a second resistor is added in parallel, and why?
- 12th December 2001What happens inside the nucleus when a beta particle is emitted?
- 13th December 2001Explain, using Newton's Third Law, why a swimmer is able to push themselves forward by pushing backward against the water.
- 14th December 2001State what happens to the magnetic field around a straight current-carrying wire if the direction of the current is reversed.
- 15th December 2001State what red-shift shows about the motion of most distant galaxies.
- 16th December 2001State three factors that increase the rate of diffusion.
- 17th December 2001Explain why a small number of healthy volunteers are given a very low dose of a new drug in the first stage of a clinical trial.
- 18th December 2001State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 19th December 2001State one ethical concern raised by embryo screening.
- 20th December 2001What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
- 21st December 2001What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
- 22nd December 2001Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
- 23rd December 2001State the name given to the negative electrode in electrolysis.
- 24th December 2001Explain why using a light sensor and data logger is more reliable than timing by eye in the disappearing cross practical.
- 25th December 2001Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 26th December 2001Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 27th December 2001Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 28th December 2001Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 29th December 2001A cyclist rides 300 m north then 300 m back south to the start. State the total distance travelled and total displacement.
- 30th December 2001Explain, in terms of particle motion, why a wave can transfer energy without transferring matter.
- 31st December 2001Name the region of the Solar System where most asteroids are found.