Daily Practice · GCSE Science
February 2010 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in February 2010, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in February 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2010Name the blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
- 2nd February 2010A lamp is placed 10 cm from pondweed. Calculate the relative light intensity using relative light intensity = 1 / distance^2.
- 3rd February 2010Name the hormone that causes the liver to convert stored glycogen back into glucose.
- 4th February 2010Thermus 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.
- 5th February 2010Classify crude oil as finite or renewable, and justify your answer.
- 6th February 2010Why can an ionic compound conduct electricity when molten or dissolved but not when solid?
- 7th February 2010Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in 200 cm3 of a 0.500 mol/dm3 solution.
- 8th February 2010State the only substance produced when a hydrogen fuel cell reacts pure hydrogen with pure oxygen.
- 9th February 2010State the type of reaction that occurs when bromine adds across the double bond of an alkene.
- 10th February 2010Give two human activities that increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
- 11th February 2010A 5.0 kg object is lifted 3.0 m. Calculate its gain in gravitational potential energy (g = 9.8 N/kg).
- 12th February 2010Give the colour and function of the earth wire.
- 13th February 2010What observation showed the nucleus is positively charged and very small?
- 14th February 2010Explain why a rucksack with wide, padded straps is more comfortable to carry than one with thin straps, for the same load.
- 15th February 2010State the three factors needed for a current-carrying wire to experience a force due to the motor effect.
- 16th February 2010A student measures 24 cubic centimetres of gas in 3 minutes. Calculate the rate.
- 17th February 2010State two ways that bile aids the digestion of fats.
- 18th February 2010Give one way of reducing the spread of malaria.
- 19th February 2010A patient's core body temperature has fallen to 35 degrees Celsius. State two physical responses their body makes to raise it back toward normal.
- 20th February 2010Explain one reason it took many years for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to become widely accepted.
- 21st February 2010State the relative charge of a neutron.
- 22nd February 2010Why do elements in the same group have similar chemical properties?
- 23rd February 2010Why is the amount of product directly proportional to the amount of limiting reactant?
- 24th February 2010A reaction profile shows the reactants at 150 kJ and the peak (activation energy point) at 195 kJ. Calculate the activation energy.
- 25th February 2010State what is meant by dynamic equilibrium.
- 26th February 2010A solution forms a green precipitate with sodium hydroxide solution. Which ion is present?
- 27th February 2010Give the equation for wave speed and its units.
- 28th February 2010A component has a current of 5.0 A and a resistance of 8.0 ohm. Calculate the power dissipated using P = I^2 x R.