Daily Practice · GCSE Science
June 2012 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in June 2012, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in June 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2012Put the following in order of increasing distance from the Sun: Mars, Venus, Saturn, Earth.
- 2nd June 2012Define an undifferentiated cell.
- 3rd June 2012Which tissue transports water and mineral ions from the roots?
- 4th June 2012Give three uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis.
- 5th June 2012Name the three-domain system of classification, and name the scientist most associated with proposing it.
- 6th June 2012A 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.
- 7th June 2012Explain why steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) is generally harder than pure iron.
- 8th June 2012Why do polymers have higher melting points than small molecules such as methane?
- 9th June 2012Complete: acid + metal carbonate gives ...
- 10th June 2012State the four factors that can increase the rate of a chemical reaction.
- 11th June 2012State the functional group found in all alcohols.
- 12th June 2012Explain, in one sentence, why the oceans were able to form only after the early Earth had cooled.
- 13th June 2012By what factor does kinetic energy increase if speed is doubled?
- 14th June 2012A 1.5 kg block of iron is heated from 18 degrees C to 98 degrees C. The specific heat capacity of iron is 450 J/(kg degrees C). Calculate the change in thermal energy.
- 15th June 2012Define the term 'half-life' of a radioactive isotope.
- 16th June 2012State what happens to the frequency of a wave when it is refracted as it passes into a different material.
- 17th June 2012State two factors that increase the size of the potential difference induced in a coil.
- 18th June 2012State one structure found in a bacterial cell but not in an animal cell.
- 19th June 2012Describe the positive result of the Biuret test.
- 20th June 2012What is tested during preclinical testing?
- 21st June 2012Put these into the correct order for a reflex arc: motor neuron, receptor, effector, relay neuron, sensory neuron.
- 22nd June 2012State one structural adaptation of a polar bear that helps it survive in a cold environment.
- 23rd June 2012Define a finite resource, giving one example.
- 24th June 2012State one reason why simple covalent substances such as chlorine have low melting points.
- 25th June 2012Why do companies prefer reactions with a high atom economy?
- 26th June 2012On a reaction profile diagram, the reactants are drawn at a higher energy level than the products. State whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 27th June 2012Name the process used to separate crude oil into fractions.
- 28th June 2012Explain why the solvent level in the container must be below the pencil baseline.
- 29th June 2012In the specific heat capacity practical, why is the block insulated?
- 30th June 2012Describe the current-potential difference graph for a filament lamp.