Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 2010 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in November 2010, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in November 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2010A resistor of resistance 15 ohm is connected to a 6.0 V supply. Calculate the current flowing through it. Use V = I x R.
- 2nd November 2010A gas is heated in a sealed rigid container. Explain what happens to the pressure.
- 3rd November 2010State what the gradient of a distance-time graph represents.
- 4th November 2010Explain why ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays can be hazardous to human health, but radio waves are not.
- 5th November 2010Explain, in terms of forces, why a satellite in a stable orbit does not fall towards the Earth or fly off into space.
- 6th November 2010Define an undifferentiated cell.
- 7th November 2010Which tissue transports water and mineral ions from the roots?
- 8th November 2010Give three uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis.
- 9th November 2010In pea plants, the allele for tall stems (T) is dominant over the allele for short stems (t). A homozygous tall plant (TT) is crossed with a homozygous short plant (tt). State the genotype and phenotype of all the offspring.
- 10th November 2010A 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.
- 11th November 2010Explain why steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) is generally harder than pure iron.
- 12th November 2010Why do polymers have higher melting points than small molecules such as methane?
- 13th November 2010Complete: acid + metal carbonate gives ...
- 14th November 2010State the four factors that can increase the rate of a chemical reaction.
- 15th November 2010State what happens to the carbon-to-carbon double bond of an alkene monomer during addition polymerisation.
- 16th November 2010State two long-term stores of carbon that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 17th November 2010By what factor does kinetic energy increase if speed is doubled?
- 18th November 2010Calculate the energy needed to melt 0.50 kg of a substance with a specific latent heat of fusion of 210000 J/kg.
- 19th November 2010Define the term 'half-life' of a radioactive isotope.
- 20th November 2010Name the type of electromagnetic wave used to sterilise medical equipment.
- 21st November 2010A transformer has a primary current of 2.0 A and a primary voltage of 230 V. The secondary voltage is 460 V. Assuming the transformer is 100 percent efficient, calculate the secondary current.
- 22nd November 2010Name the structure in a plant cell that controls the substances entering and leaving the cell.
- 23rd November 2010Describe the positive result of the Biuret test.
- 24th November 2010What is tested during preclinical testing?
- 25th November 2010Explain why reflex responses are faster than voluntary responses.
- 26th November 2010Define community, in ecological terms.
- 27th November 2010Name two methods of desalinating seawater.
- 28th November 2010Name the giant covalent structure made of carbon in which each carbon atom is bonded to four others.
- 29th November 2010Why do companies prefer reactions with a high atom economy?
- 30th November 2010On a reaction profile diagram, the reactants are drawn at a higher energy level than the products. State whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.