Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 2006 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in December 2006, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in December 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2006Explain why solid sodium chloride does not conduct electricity, but molten sodium chloride does.
- 2nd December 2006In the gas-volume required practical measuring how concentration affects rate, state one variable that should be controlled.
- 3rd December 2006Name the gas that relights a glowing splint.
- 4th December 2006Name two gases that dissolve in atmospheric water droplets to cause acid rain.
- 5th December 2006Define power and give its unit.
- 6th December 2006Convert a density of 2.7 grams per cubic centimetre into kilograms per cubic metre.
- 7th December 2006Calculate the weight of an object of mass 8.0 kg on Earth, where g = 9.8 N/kg.
- 8th December 2006A wave travels from air into glass and slows down. State what happens to its direction, and explain why in terms of wavelength.
- 9th December 2006State what a nebula is, and explain its role in the life cycle of a star.
- 10th December 2006Give one advantage of a light microscope over an electron microscope.
- 11th December 2006Name the blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
- 12th December 2006Name the gas that is released as a product of photosynthesis.
- 13th December 2006Name the hormone released by the adrenal glands that prepares the body for fight or flight.
- 14th December 2006Thermus aquaticus is a species of bacterium that lives in hot springs at temperatures that would kill most other organisms. State the name given to an organism that is adapted to survive in such extreme conditions.
- 15th December 2006Explain why potable water is not required to be chemically pure.
- 16th December 2006Why can an ionic compound conduct electricity when molten or dissolved but not when solid?
- 17th December 2006State the name given to a reaction in which a substance loses electrons.
- 18th December 2006State the only substance produced when a hydrogen fuel cell reacts pure hydrogen with pure oxygen.
- 19th December 2006State the general formula of the alkenes.
- 20th December 2006Give two processes that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 21st December 2006Calculate the kinetic energy of a 2.0 kg trolley moving at 4.0 m/s.
- 22nd December 2006Give the colour and function of the earth wire.
- 23rd December 2006What observation showed the nucleus is positively charged and very small?
- 24th December 2006A box of weight 120 N has a base area of 0.40 m^2. Calculate the pressure it exerts on the ground.
- 25th December 2006Explain why a current-carrying wire positioned exactly parallel to a magnetic field experiences no force.
- 26th December 2006A student measures 24 cubic centimetres of gas in 3 minutes. Calculate the rate.
- 27th December 2006Explain why the rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction decreases sharply above the enzyme's optimum temperature.
- 28th December 2006Give one way of reducing the spread of malaria.
- 29th December 2006Name the three parts common to every homeostatic control system.
- 30th December 2006State one advantage and one disadvantage of selective breeding in farm animals.
- 31st December 2006Write the electronic structure of an atom with 12 electrons.