Daily Practice · GCSE Science
September 2017 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in September 2017, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in September 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2017State the type of force that always acts between an induced magnet and the magnet that induced it.
- 2nd September 2017Name the model of the origin of the universe that is supported by red-shift observations.
- 3rd September 2017State three factors that increase the rate of diffusion.
- 4th September 2017Describe how phagocytes destroy pathogens in the body.
- 5th September 2017Define oxygen debt.
- 6th September 2017Explain one benefit of the Human Genome Project.
- 7th September 2017What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
- 8th September 2017What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
- 9th September 2017Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
- 10th September 2017Explain why solid sodium chloride does not conduct electricity, but molten sodium chloride does.
- 11th September 2017In the gas-volume required practical measuring how concentration affects rate, state one variable that should be controlled.
- 12th September 2017Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 13th September 2017Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 14th September 2017Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 15th September 2017Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 16th September 2017Calculate the weight of an object of mass 8.0 kg on Earth, where g = 9.8 N/kg.
- 17th September 2017A wave travels from air into glass and slows down. State what happens to its direction, and explain why in terms of wavelength.
- 18th September 2017State what a nebula is, and explain its role in the life cycle of a star.
- 19th September 2017Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 20th September 2017Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 21st September 2017Name the gas that is released as a product of photosynthesis.
- 22nd September 2017Name the hormone released by the adrenal glands that prepares the body for fight or flight.
- 23rd September 2017In a grassland food chain, the biomass of grass available is 8400 kg and the biomass transferred to the rabbits that eat it is 940 kg. Calculate the percentage efficiency of biomass transfer from grass to rabbits, to 3 significant figures.
- 24th September 2017Explain why potable water is not required to be chemically pure.
- 25th September 2017Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
- 26th September 2017State the name given to a reaction in which a substance loses electrons.
- 27th September 2017State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
- 28th September 2017State the general formula of the alkenes.
- 29th September 2017Give two processes that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 30th September 2017Calculate the kinetic energy of a 2.0 kg trolley moving at 4.0 m/s.