Daily Practice · GCSE Science
March 2014 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in March 2014, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in March 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2014A box of weight 120 N has a base area of 0.40 m^2. Calculate the pressure it exerts on the ground.
- 2nd March 2014Explain why a current-carrying wire positioned exactly parallel to a magnetic field experiences no force.
- 3rd March 2014Define the independent variable.
- 4th March 2014State two ways that bile aids the digestion of fats.
- 5th March 2014Name the type of pathogen that causes malaria.
- 6th March 2014Name the three parts common to every homeostatic control system.
- 7th March 2014State one advantage and one disadvantage of selective breeding in farm animals.
- 8th March 2014State the relative charge of a neutron.
- 9th March 2014Why are the noble gases unreactive?
- 10th March 2014How many atoms are there in 0.5 mol of helium?
- 11th March 2014A reaction profile shows the reactants at 150 kJ and the peak (activation energy point) at 195 kJ. Calculate the activation energy.
- 12th March 2014In the Haber process, N2(g) + 3H2(g) -> 2NH3(g), state the effect of decreasing the pressure on the position of equilibrium.
- 13th March 2014Describe the test, and the positive result, for ammonium ions.
- 14th March 2014Convert 3.5 kJ into joules.
- 15th March 2014A 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.
- 16th March 2014How is the temperature of a gas related to the motion of its molecules?
- 17th March 2014A train travels at a constant velocity of 40 m/s for 3 minutes. Calculate the distance it travels, in km.
- 18th March 2014A microwave oven uses electromagnetic waves with a wavelength of 0.12 m. Calculate the frequency of these waves (speed of light = 3 x 10^8 m/s).
- 19th March 2014Put the following in order of increasing distance from the Sun: Mars, Venus, Saturn, Earth.
- 20th March 2014How many pairs of chromosomes are there in a human body cell?
- 21st March 2014Where are most stomata found on a typical leaf, and why?
- 22nd March 2014Name four limiting factors of photosynthesis.
- 23rd March 2014Name the three-domain system of classification, and name the scientist most associated with proposing it.
- 24th March 2014State what is meant by the term biodiversity.
- 25th March 2014Give one reason a manufacturer's own life cycle assessment of its product might not be fully objective.
- 26th March 2014Give one use of nanoparticles and one associated risk.
- 27th March 2014Give the ionic equation for neutralisation.
- 28th March 2014State what is shown on a rate graph when the line for the volume of gas produced becomes horizontal (flat).
- 29th March 2014State the functional group found in all alcohols.
- 30th March 2014Name the two gases produced by photosynthesis and the substance it consumes alongside carbon dioxide.
- 31st March 2014State the equation for gravitational potential energy.