Daily Practice · GCSE Science
July 2016 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in July 2016, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in July 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2016State the speed at which all electromagnetic waves travel through a vacuum.
- 2nd July 2016A transformer has 500 turns on its primary coil and 2500 turns on its secondary coil. State, with a reason, whether this is a step-up or a step-down transformer.
- 3rd July 2016State one structure found in a bacterial cell but not in an animal cell.
- 4th July 2016State two functions of bile.
- 5th July 2016What is an antigen?
- 6th July 2016Name the two parts of the central nervous system (CNS).
- 7th July 2016Name the group of organisms that break down dead plant and animal matter, returning mineral ions to the soil.
- 8th July 2016Define a finite resource, giving one example.
- 9th July 2016State one reason why simple covalent substances such as chlorine have low melting points.
- 10th July 2016State two reasons why a percentage yield is less than 100 percent.
- 11th July 2016State what is meant by the activation energy of a reaction.
- 12th July 2016Hexadecane (C16H34) is cracked to produce dodecane (C12H26) and one other product. Calculate the molecular formula of the other product.
- 13th July 2016Explain why the baseline is drawn in pencil rather than ink.
- 14th July 2016Give one reason for taking the gradient from the line of best fit rather than from two data points.
- 15th July 2016State the equation linking potential difference, current and resistance.
- 16th July 2016Define half-life.
- 17th July 2016A resultant force of 60 N acts on a wheelbarrow of mass 15 kg. Calculate its acceleration.
- 18th July 2016State the difference between a permanent magnet and an induced magnet.
- 19th July 2016State whether a galaxy moving towards Earth would show a red-shift or a blue-shift in its light.
- 20th July 2016Define osmosis.
- 21st July 2016A student measures the mean diameter of a zone of inhibition as 12 mm. Calculate its radius.
- 22nd July 2016State two things excess glucose can be converted into for storage in the human body.
- 23rd July 2016Define homozygous.
- 24th July 2016A gas syringe collects 48 cubic centimetres of gas in 40 seconds. Calculate the mean rate.
- 25th July 2016Why do isotopes of an element react in the same way?
- 26th July 2016Calculate the Mr of calcium carbonate, CaCO3. (Ca = 40, C = 12, O = 16)
- 27th July 2016Molten zinc chloride, ZnCl2, is electrolysed using inert electrodes. Write the half equation for the reaction at (a) the cathode, and (b) the anode.
- 28th July 2016A tangent drawn to a volume-time graph at 15 seconds passes through the points (5 s, 6 cm3) and (25 s, 66 cm3). Calculate the rate of reaction at 15 seconds.
- 29th July 2016State the reagent added, and the result, that shows a white solid contains sulfate ions.
- 30th July 2016State the two products of the complete combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel.
- 31st July 2016State one way to increase the efficiency of a motor.