Daily Practice · GCSE Science
June 2017 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in June 2017, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in June 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2017State one benefit of recycling metal rather than extracting new metal from its ore.
- 2nd June 2017Name the three types of strong chemical bonding.
- 3rd June 2017Convert a concentration of 0.20 moles per cubic decimetre of NaOH into grams per cubic decimetre. (Mr = 40)
- 4th June 2017State the energy transfer that occurs during an exothermic reaction.
- 5th June 2017Define the term 'hydrocarbon'.
- 6th June 2017In a chromatography experiment, a dye spot travels 4.5 cm and the solvent front travels 6.0 cm. Calculate its Rf value.
- 7th June 2017Define the resolution of a measuring instrument.
- 8th June 2017Two 4 ohm resistors are connected in series. Calculate the total resistance.
- 9th June 2017Which type of radiation is stopped by a sheet of paper?
- 10th June 2017A shopping trolley has a mass of 25 kg. Calculate its weight, taking g = 9.8 N/kg.
- 11th June 2017A student wraps a coil of insulated wire around an iron nail and connects it to a battery. Name the device this creates, and state one way to increase its magnetic field strength.
- 12th June 2017Explain why red-shift observations support the idea that the universe is expanding, rather than Earth simply being at the centre of the universe with everything moving away from it.
- 13th June 2017Why does active transport require energy?
- 14th June 2017State one way that pathogens can be spread from person to person.
- 15th June 2017Explain, in terms of respiration, why a build-up of lactic acid causes muscle fatigue during vigorous exercise.
- 16th June 2017A man has genotype XY. State his sex, and state which sex chromosomes are found in the sperm cells he produces.
- 17th June 2017Name one way to make a rate of reaction experiment more valid rather than simply more precise.
- 18th June 2017Define an isotope.
- 19th June 2017A sealed flask containing 12.0 g of reactants is shaken and a reaction occurs. What is the total mass afterwards?
- 20th June 2017In the industrial extraction of aluminium, explain why the aluminium oxide is dissolved in molten cryolite rather than melted on its own.
- 21st June 2017Explain why increasing the surface area of a solid reactant increases the rate of a reaction.
- 22nd June 2017State the difference between a pure substance and a formulation.
- 23rd June 2017Explain why burning a fuel can produce nitrogen oxides even if the fuel itself contains no nitrogen.
- 24th June 2017Name three renewable energy resources.
- 25th June 2017State the equation for density.
- 26th June 2017State whether friction is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 27th June 2017A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz. Calculate its period.
- 28th June 2017Explain, in terms of forces, why an orbiting satellite does not travel off in a straight line.
- 29th June 2017Why is a stain such as iodine used when preparing a slide?
- 30th June 2017Give two adaptations of a red blood cell.