Daily Practice · GCSE Science
June 2011 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in June 2011, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in June 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2011Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 2nd June 2011Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 3rd June 2011Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 4th June 2011A cyclist rides 300 m north then 300 m back south to the start. State the total distance travelled and total displacement.
- 5th June 2011Sound waves travel through a steel rail at approximately 5900 m/s. A sound wave sent along the rail has a frequency of 2950 Hz. Calculate its wavelength.
- 6th June 2011State the eventual fate of a star with a much greater mass than the Sun, after it explodes as a supernova.
- 7th June 2011Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 8th June 2011Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 9th June 2011A lamp is placed 10 cm from pondweed. Calculate the relative light intensity using relative light intensity = 1 / distance^2.
- 10th June 2011Name the gland often called the body's master gland.
- 11th June 2011In 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.
- 12th June 2011Classify crude oil as finite or renewable, and justify your answer.
- 13th June 2011Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
- 14th June 2011Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in 200 cm3 of a 0.500 mol/dm3 solution.
- 15th June 2011State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
- 16th June 2011State the number of covalent bonds a carbon atom forms in a saturated hydrocarbon.
- 17th June 2011Give two human activities that increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
- 18th June 2011A 5.0 kg object is lifted 3.0 m. Calculate its gain in gravitational potential energy (g = 9.8 N/kg).
- 19th June 2011Why is the live wire dangerous even when a device is switched off?
- 20th June 2011Describe the plum pudding model.
- 21st June 2011State the equation that links pressure, force and area.
- 22nd June 2011In a simple d.c. electric motor, state the name and function of the component that reverses the current in the coil every half turn.
- 23rd June 2011Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.
- 24th June 2011State two ways that bile aids the digestion of fats.
- 25th June 2011Define a communicable disease.
- 26th June 2011Name the gland that monitors and controls blood glucose concentration.
- 27th June 2011Explain why genetic engineering can introduce a new characteristic in a single generation, while selective breeding cannot.
- 28th June 2011State the relative charge of a neutron.
- 29th June 2011Explain why potassium is more reactive than sodium.
- 30th June 2011Calculate the number of moles in 88 g of carbon dioxide. (Mr = 44)