Daily Practice · GCSE Science
March 2017 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in March 2017, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in March 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2017By what factor does kinetic energy increase if speed is doubled?
- 2nd March 2017A block has a volume of 50 cm^3 and a mass of 135 g. Calculate its density.
- 3rd March 2017Define the term 'half-life' of a radioactive isotope.
- 4th March 2017A water wave has a frequency of 4 Hz and a wavelength of 0.5 m. Calculate its speed.
- 5th March 2017A transformer's primary coil is connected to a 12 V supply and has 60 turns. Calculate the number of turns needed on the secondary coil to produce an output of 3.0 V.
- 6th March 2017A cube-shaped model cell has sides of length 3 cm. Calculate the surface area to volume ratio of the cube. Give your answer in the form n : 1.
- 7th March 2017Describe the positive result of the Biuret test.
- 8th March 2017What is tested during preclinical testing?
- 9th March 2017Define a synapse.
- 10th March 2017Give one example of an abiotic factor that could affect where a plant species grows.
- 11th March 2017Name the four stages usually considered in a life cycle assessment of a product.
- 12th March 2017A student says that metals conduct electricity because they contain free-moving ions. Explain why this statement is incorrect, and give the correct explanation.
- 13th March 2017Why do companies prefer reactions with a high atom economy?
- 14th March 2017On a reaction profile diagram, the reactants are drawn at a higher energy level than the products. State whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 15th March 2017State the general formula of the alkanes.
- 16th March 2017Explain why the solvent level in the container must be below the pencil baseline.
- 17th March 2017In the specific heat capacity practical, why is the block insulated?
- 18th March 2017Describe the current-potential difference graph for a filament lamp.
- 19th March 2017State the difference between irradiation and contamination.
- 20th March 2017Calculate the momentum of a 1200 kg car travelling at 18 m/s.
- 21st March 2017Explain why a compass needle placed just outside one end of a current-carrying solenoid lines up parallel to the solenoid's axis.
- 22nd March 2017Name the second major piece of observational evidence, besides red-shift, that supports the Big Bang model.
- 23rd March 2017Name the process that moves substances against a concentration gradient.
- 24th March 2017Which type of pathogen causes athlete's foot, a fungal skin infection?
- 25th March 2017A student counts 19 pulse beats in 10 seconds immediately after running. Calculate her heart rate in beats per minute.
- 26th March 2017State how many chromosomes are found in a normal human body cell, and how they are arranged.
- 27th March 2017Why is the burette rinsed with the solution it is going to contain rather than with water?
- 28th March 2017State the relative mass and relative charge of a neutron.
- 29th March 2017Calculate the Mr of Ca(OH)2. (Ca = 40, O = 16, H = 1)
- 30th March 2017In the industrial extraction of aluminium, explain why the carbon anodes need to be replaced regularly.
- 31st March 2017State the condition, in terms of energy, that colliding particles must meet for a reaction to occur.