Daily Practice · GCSE Science
May 2019 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in May 2019, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in May 2019
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2019A wire of length 0.20 m carries a current of 5.0 A at right angles to a magnetic field of flux density 0.60 T. Calculate the force on the wire.
- 2nd May 2019Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.
- 3rd May 2019Name the plant tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the leaves.
- 4th May 2019Define a communicable disease.
- 5th May 2019Explain, in terms of blood vessels, how the skin helps to cool the body when it is too hot.
- 6th May 2019Define speciation.
- 7th May 2019Explain, in terms of electrons, why reactivity decreases going down Group 7.
- 8th May 2019Explain why potassium is more reactive than sodium.
- 9th May 2019Calculate the number of moles in 88 g of carbon dioxide. (Mr = 44)
- 10th May 2019Explain, in terms of bonds, why breaking bonds is an endothermic process.
- 11th May 2019State the catalyst commonly used in the Haber process.
- 12th May 2019A solution gives a cream precipitate when acidified with dilute nitric acid and then treated with silver nitrate solution. Name the halide ion present.
- 13th May 2019A device transfers 4500 J in 90 s. Calculate its power.
- 14th May 2019In a series circuit, the current through one lamp is 0.30 A. State the current through a second lamp in the same circuit.
- 15th May 2019Why does a bicycle pump get warm when used?
- 16th May 2019Define the term 'vector quantity' and give one example.
- 17th May 2019Name the type of electromagnetic wave used to treat cancer by killing cells in a tumour, and state which part of the atom emits it.
- 18th May 2019State one difference between a moon and an artificial satellite.
- 19th May 2019What happens to the DNA before mitosis begins?
- 20th May 2019State two conditions that increase the rate of transpiration.
- 21st May 2019A lamp is moved from 15 cm to 30 cm away. What happens to the light intensity?
- 22nd May 2019Define phenotype.
- 23rd May 2019Name the biological process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converts it into carbon compounds in a plant.
- 24th May 2019State one environmental benefit of recycling aluminium cans rather than making new aluminium from ore.
- 25th May 2019Explain why graphite conducts electricity but diamond does not.
- 26th May 2019State what is observed when magnesium ribbon is added to copper sulfate solution.
- 27th May 2019State the equation for the mean rate of a reaction in terms of the quantity of reactant used.
- 28th May 2019Name the type of biological molecule formed when amino acid monomers join together by condensation polymerisation.
- 29th May 2019Describe, in terms of wavelength, the difference between the radiation the Earth receives from the Sun and the radiation it re-emits from its surface.
- 30th May 2019Calculate the kinetic energy of a 0.5 kg ball moving at 6 m/s.
- 31st May 2019State what happens to the internal energy of a substance as it is heated, in terms of the kinetic and potential energy of its particles.