Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 2015 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in November 2015, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in November 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2015Explain what happens to an enzyme above its optimum temperature.
- 2nd November 2015Name three non-specific defences of the human body.
- 3rd November 2015Name the chemical released at a synapse that carries the signal across the gap.
- 4th November 2015Explain why deforestation to create land for cattle grazing can reduce biodiversity.
- 5th November 2015Name the four stages usually considered in a life cycle assessment of a product.
- 6th November 2015A student says that metals conduct electricity because they contain free-moving ions. Explain why this statement is incorrect, and give the correct explanation.
- 7th November 2015Convert a concentration of 0.20 moles per cubic decimetre of NaOH into grams per cubic decimetre. (Mr = 40)
- 8th November 2015State the energy transfer that occurs during an exothermic reaction.
- 9th November 2015State two products, other than water, that can be formed during the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon.
- 10th November 2015In a chromatography experiment, a dye spot travels 4.5 cm and the solvent front travels 6.0 cm. Calculate its Rf value.
- 11th November 2015Define the resolution of a measuring instrument.
- 12th November 2015Two 4 ohm resistors are connected in series. Calculate the total resistance.
- 13th November 2015Which type of radiation is stopped by a sheet of paper?
- 14th November 2015Explain why a larger vehicle mass increases braking distance.
- 15th November 2015State the type of force that always acts between an induced magnet and the magnet that induced it.
- 16th November 2015Name the model of the origin of the universe that is supported by red-shift observations.
- 17th November 2015Why does active transport require energy?
- 18th November 2015Which type of pathogen causes athlete's foot, a fungal skin infection?
- 19th November 2015Define oxygen debt.
- 20th November 2015Explain one benefit of the Human Genome Project.
- 21st November 2015Name one way to make a rate of reaction experiment more valid rather than simply more precise.
- 22nd November 2015Define an isotope.
- 23rd November 2015A sealed flask containing 12.0 g of reactants is shaken and a reaction occurs. What is the total mass afterwards?
- 24th November 2015Explain why solid sodium chloride does not conduct electricity, but molten sodium chloride does.
- 25th November 2015In the gas-volume required practical measuring how concentration affects rate, state one variable that should be controlled.
- 26th November 2015State the difference between a pure substance and a formulation.
- 27th November 2015Explain why burning a fuel can produce nitrogen oxides even if the fuel itself contains no nitrogen.
- 28th November 2015Name three renewable energy resources.
- 29th November 2015State the equation for density.
- 30th November 2015A box has a driving force of 250 N forward and friction of 180 N backward. Calculate the resultant force, including its direction.