Daily Practice · GCSE Science
February 2016 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in February 2016, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in February 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2016Readings have a mean of 20.0 cm and a range of 1.0 cm. Calculate the percentage uncertainty.
- 2nd February 2016What happens to the total resistance when a second resistor is added in parallel, and why?
- 3rd February 2016What happens inside the nucleus when a beta particle is emitted?
- 4th February 2016State Newton's First Law of Motion.
- 5th February 2016Two bar magnets are placed with their north poles facing each other. State what happens to the magnets.
- 6th February 2016State what is meant by red-shift.
- 7th February 2016State three factors that increase the rate of diffusion.
- 8th February 2016State one way that pathogens can be spread from person to person.
- 9th February 2016Explain why breathing rate and breathing depth both increase during exercise.
- 10th February 2016In pea plants, purple flower colour (allele H) is dominant over white flower colour (allele h). State the phenotype of a plant with genotype Hh.
- 11th February 2016What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
- 12th February 2016What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
- 13th February 2016Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
- 14th February 2016State the two materials commonly used as inert electrodes in electrolysis, and explain why they must be inert.
- 15th February 2016Explain how a catalyst increases the rate of a reaction without being used up.
- 16th February 2016Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 17th February 2016Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 18th February 2016Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 19th February 2016Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 20th February 2016State whether friction is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 21st February 2016Give one everyday example of a transverse wave and one everyday example of a longitudinal wave.
- 22nd February 2016State what happens to the orbital speed needed for a stable orbit as the orbital radius increases.
- 23rd February 2016Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 24th February 2016Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 25th February 2016Complete the word equation for anaerobic respiration in yeast: glucose -> ___ + ___
- 26th February 2016Explain why type 1 diabetes is treated with insulin injections rather than tablets.
- 27th February 2016In 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.
- 28th February 2016Give one reason distillation of seawater requires a large energy input.
- 29th February 2016Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.