Daily Practice · GCSE Science
April 2016 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in April 2016, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in April 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2016State one environmental benefit of recycling aluminium cans rather than making new aluminium from ore.
- 2nd April 2016Explain why graphite conducts electricity but diamond does not.
- 3rd April 2016State what is observed when magnesium ribbon is added to copper sulfate solution.
- 4th April 2016State the equation for the mean rate of a reaction in terms of the quantity of reactant used.
- 5th April 2016State what happens to the carbon-to-carbon double bond of an alkene monomer during addition polymerisation.
- 6th April 2016State two long-term stores of carbon that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 7th April 2016Calculate the kinetic energy of a 0.5 kg ball moving at 6 m/s.
- 8th April 2016Calculate the energy needed to melt 0.50 kg of a substance with a specific latent heat of fusion of 210000 J/kg.
- 9th April 2016Explain why americium-241, an alpha emitter, is suitable for use in a smoke detector.
- 10th April 2016Name the type of electromagnetic wave used to sterilise medical equipment.
- 11th April 2016A transformer has a primary current of 2.0 A and a primary voltage of 230 V. The secondary voltage is 460 V. Assuming the transformer is 100 percent efficient, calculate the secondary current.
- 12th April 2016Name the structure in a plant cell that controls the substances entering and leaving the cell.
- 13th April 2016Where is bile made and where is it stored?
- 14th April 2016Why does a vaccinated person not usually become ill when they meet the pathogen?
- 15th April 2016Explain why reflex responses are faster than voluntary responses.
- 16th April 2016Define community, in ecological terms.
- 17th April 2016Name two methods of desalinating seawater.
- 18th April 2016Name the giant covalent structure made of carbon in which each carbon atom is bonded to four others.
- 19th April 2016Calculate the concentration in moles per cubic decimetre of a solution containing 0.5 mol in 250 cubic centimetres.
- 20th April 2016State the energy transfer that occurs during an endothermic reaction.
- 21st April 2016Name the two industrial methods of cracking.
- 22nd April 2016A sample produces only one spot when run in three different solvents. What does this suggest about the sample?
- 23rd April 2016Why should a line of best fit be drawn rather than joining the plotted points?
- 24th April 2016In a parallel circuit, how do the branch currents relate to the total current?
- 25th April 2016State the approximate radius of an atom.
- 26th April 2016Explain, using Newton's Third Law, why a swimmer is able to push themselves forward by pushing backward against the water.
- 27th April 2016State what happens to the magnetic field around a straight current-carrying wire if the direction of the current is reversed.
- 28th April 2016State what red-shift shows about the motion of most distant galaxies.
- 29th April 2016Give one adaptation of a root hair cell for absorbing mineral ions.
- 30th April 2016Describe how phagocytes destroy pathogens in the body.