Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 2010 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in December 2010, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in December 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2010Name the two industrial methods of cracking.
- 2nd December 2010Explain why the solvent level in the container must be below the pencil baseline.
- 3rd December 2010In the specific heat capacity practical, why is the block insulated?
- 4th December 2010Describe the current-potential difference graph for a filament lamp.
- 5th December 2010State the difference between irradiation and contamination.
- 6th December 2010Explain, using Newton's Third Law, why a swimmer is able to push themselves forward by pushing backward against the water.
- 7th December 2010State what happens to the magnetic field around a straight current-carrying wire if the direction of the current is reversed.
- 8th December 2010State what red-shift shows about the motion of most distant galaxies.
- 9th December 2010Name the process that moves substances against a concentration gradient.
- 10th December 2010Describe how phagocytes destroy pathogens in the body.
- 11th December 2010State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 12th December 2010State one ethical concern raised by embryo screening.
- 13th December 2010Why is the burette rinsed with the solution it is going to contain rather than with water?
- 14th December 2010State the relative mass and relative charge of a neutron.
- 15th December 2010Calculate the Mr of Ca(OH)2. (Ca = 40, O = 16, H = 1)
- 16th December 2010State the name given to the negative electrode in electrolysis.
- 17th December 2010Explain why using a light sensor and data logger is more reliable than timing by eye in the disappearing cross practical.
- 18th December 2010Which reagent is added, and in what colour change, to test for chlorine gas?
- 19th December 2010Explain how solid carbon particulates released by combustion can cause global dimming.
- 20th December 2010A lamp is supplied with 60 J and transfers 6 J as light. Calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
- 21st December 2010Define specific latent heat of fusion.
- 22nd December 2010Calculate the weight of an object of mass 8.0 kg on Earth, where g = 9.8 N/kg.
- 23rd December 2010Explain, in terms of particle motion, why a wave can transfer energy without transferring matter.
- 24th December 2010Name the region of the Solar System where most asteroids are found.
- 25th December 2010Give the equation linking magnification, image size and real size.
- 26th December 2010Give one advantage and one disadvantage of a stent.
- 27th December 2010Name the gas that is released as a product of photosynthesis.
- 28th December 2010A person's blood glucose concentration is 4.8 mmol/dm^3 before breakfast and 7.2 mmol/dm^3 after breakfast. Calculate the increase in blood glucose concentration.
- 29th December 2010State what is meant by the term ecosystem.
- 30th December 2010Explain why potable water is not required to be chemically pure.
- 31st December 2010Describe metallic bonding.