Daily Practice · GCSE Science
May 2017 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in May 2017, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in May 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2017How many atoms are there in 0.5 mol of helium?
- 2nd May 2017State whether the combustion of methane is exothermic or endothermic.
- 3rd May 2017State what is meant by dynamic equilibrium.
- 4th May 2017Describe the test, and the positive result, for ammonium ions.
- 5th May 2017Convert 3.5 kJ into joules.
- 6th May 2017Two resistors are connected in parallel across a 12 V battery. State the potential difference across each resistor.
- 7th May 2017How is the temperature of a gas related to the motion of its molecules?
- 8th May 2017A skydiver reaches terminal velocity during free fall. Explain what is meant by 'terminal velocity'.
- 9th May 2017State the seven regions of the electromagnetic spectrum in order of increasing frequency.
- 10th May 2017State what provides the centripetal force that keeps a planet in orbit around the Sun.
- 11th May 2017How many pairs of chromosomes are there in a human body cell?
- 12th May 2017Where are most stomata found on a typical leaf, and why?
- 13th May 2017Name four limiting factors of photosynthesis.
- 14th May 2017Define the term allele.
- 15th May 2017State what is meant by the term biodiversity.
- 16th May 2017Give one reason a manufacturer's own life cycle assessment of its product might not be fully objective.
- 17th May 2017Give one use of nanoparticles and one associated risk.
- 18th May 2017Give the ionic equation for neutralisation.
- 19th May 2017State what is shown on a rate graph when the line for the volume of gas produced becomes horizontal (flat).
- 20th May 2017Explain why carboxylic acids are described as 'weak acids'.
- 21st May 2017Explain why the natural greenhouse effect is necessary for life on Earth, rather than being a purely harmful process.
- 22nd May 2017State the equation for gravitational potential energy.
- 23rd May 2017State the correct SI unit for density.
- 24th May 2017Radium-226 (atomic number 88) decays by alpha emission. State the atomic number of the nucleus formed.
- 25th May 2017Explain why ultraviolet radiation can be harmful to human skin.
- 26th May 2017State two ways of inducing a potential difference across a conductor using a magnetic field.
- 27th May 2017Convert 0.02 mm into micrometres (um).
- 28th May 2017Explain what happens to an enzyme above its optimum temperature.
- 29th May 2017Name three non-specific defences of the human body.
- 30th May 2017A ruler is released and falls 20 cm before being caught. Using distance = 0.5 x g x time^2 with g = 9.8 m/s^2, calculate the reaction time, to 3 significant figures.
- 31st May 2017Name the equipment used to measure the abundance of a small plant species within a sample area.