Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 2018 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in December 2018, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in December 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2018A resistor of resistance 15 ohm is connected to a 6.0 V supply. Calculate the current flowing through it. Use V = I x R.
- 2nd December 2018How is the temperature of a gas related to the motion of its molecules?
- 3rd December 2018On a velocity-time graph, what does the area between the line and the time axis represent?
- 4th December 2018State the speed of all electromagnetic waves travelling through a vacuum.
- 5th December 2018State the name of the force that keeps a satellite in orbit around the Earth.
- 6th December 2018How many pairs of chromosomes are there in a human body cell?
- 7th December 2018Where are most stomata found on a typical leaf, and why?
- 8th December 2018Name four limiting factors of photosynthesis.
- 9th December 2018A plant grown in the shade is shorter than a genetically identical plant of the same species grown in full sunlight. State whether this difference is genetic variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 10th December 2018State what is meant by the term biodiversity.
- 11th December 2018Give one reason a manufacturer's own life cycle assessment of its product might not be fully objective.
- 12th December 2018Give one use of nanoparticles and one associated risk.
- 13th December 2018Give the ionic equation for neutralisation.
- 14th December 2018State what is shown on a rate graph when the line for the volume of gas produced becomes horizontal (flat).
- 15th December 2018Name the small molecule typically released as a by-product during condensation polymerisation.
- 16th December 2018State two long-term stores of carbon that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 17th December 2018State the equation for gravitational potential energy.
- 18th December 2018Calculate the energy needed to melt 0.50 kg of a substance with a specific latent heat of fusion of 210000 J/kg.
- 19th December 2018Radium-226 (atomic number 88) decays by alpha emission. State the atomic number of the nucleus formed.
- 20th December 2018A water wave has a frequency of 4 Hz and a wavelength of 0.5 m. Calculate its speed.
- 21st December 2018A 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.
- 22nd December 2018Name the structure in a plant cell that controls the substances entering and leaving the cell.
- 23rd December 2018Explain what happens to an enzyme above its optimum temperature.
- 24th December 2018Name three non-specific defences of the human body.
- 25th December 2018Define a synapse.
- 26th December 2018Give one example of an abiotic factor that could affect where a plant species grows.
- 27th December 2018Name two methods of desalinating seawater.
- 28th December 2018Name the giant covalent structure made of carbon in which each carbon atom is bonded to four others.
- 29th December 2018Convert a concentration of 0.20 moles per cubic decimetre of NaOH into grams per cubic decimetre. (Mr = 40)
- 30th December 2018State the energy transfer that occurs during an exothermic reaction.
- 31st December 2018State the general formula of the alkanes.