Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 2009 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in November 2009, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in November 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2009Aqueous copper sulfate solution is electrolysed using inert graphite electrodes. State the products formed at (a) the cathode and (b) the anode, giving a reason for each.
- 2nd November 2009In the disappearing cross required practical, state the dependent variable that is measured.
- 3rd November 2009Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 4th November 2009Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 5th November 2009Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 6th November 2009Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 7th November 2009A resultant force of 45 N acts on an object of mass 9.0 kg. Calculate its acceleration. Use F = m x a.
- 8th November 2009A water wave has a wavelength of 0.4 m and a frequency of 2.5 Hz. Calculate its speed.
- 9th November 2009Explain how elements heavier than iron, such as gold, are created and distributed through the universe.
- 10th November 2009Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 11th November 2009Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 12th November 2009State three factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis.
- 13th November 2009State the type of diabetes in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin.
- 14th November 2009In 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.
- 15th November 2009Explain, in terms of particle size, how reverse osmosis separates water from dissolved salt.
- 16th November 2009Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
- 17th November 2009Explain why aluminium cannot be extracted from aluminium oxide by heating with carbon.
- 18th November 2009State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
- 19th November 2009Describe the colour change seen when an alkene is shaken with bromine water.
- 20th November 2009Name three greenhouse gases.
- 21st November 2009A kettle transfers 360000 J of energy in 150 s. Calculate its power in watts.
- 22nd November 2009Why is the live wire dangerous even when a device is switched off?
- 23rd November 2009Describe the plum pudding model.
- 24th November 2009State the name of the upward force acting on an object placed in a fluid.
- 25th November 2009A current-carrying wire experiences a force of 1.2 N when placed at right angles to a magnetic field of flux density 0.40 T, carrying a current of 6.0 A. Calculate the length of wire in the field.
- 26th November 2009Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.
- 27th November 2009Name the plant tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the leaves.
- 28th November 2009Define a communicable disease.
- 29th November 2009State one difference between nervous and hormonal coordination.
- 30th November 2009State what is meant by a selection pressure.