Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 2020 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in November 2020, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in November 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2020In the industrial extraction of aluminium, explain why the carbon anodes need to be replaced regularly.
- 2nd November 2020State the condition, in terms of energy, that colliding particles must meet for a reaction to occur.
- 3rd November 2020Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 4th November 2020Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 5th November 2020Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 6th November 2020Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 7th November 2020A cyclist rides 300 m north then 300 m back south to the start. State the total distance travelled and total displacement.
- 8th November 2020A wave has a period of 0.005 s. Calculate its frequency.
- 9th November 2020State the difference between a natural satellite and an artificial satellite, and give one example of each.
- 10th November 2020Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
- 11th November 2020Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
- 12th November 2020A lamp is placed 10 cm from pondweed. Calculate the relative light intensity using relative light intensity = 1 / distance^2.
- 13th November 2020Name the hormone that causes the liver to convert stored glycogen back into glucose.
- 14th November 2020In 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.
- 15th November 2020Classify crude oil as finite or renewable, and justify your answer.
- 16th November 2020Give the charge on an ion formed by a group 2 element.
- 17th November 2020Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in 200 cm3 of a 0.500 mol/dm3 solution.
- 18th November 2020State one factor that affects the size of the voltage produced by a chemical cell.
- 19th November 2020State the type of reaction that occurs when bromine adds across the double bond of an alkene.
- 20th November 2020Give two human activities that increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
- 21st November 2020A 5.0 kg object is lifted 3.0 m. Calculate its gain in gravitational potential energy (g = 9.8 N/kg).
- 22nd November 2020Why is the live wire dangerous even when a device is switched off?
- 23rd November 2020Describe the plum pudding model.
- 24th November 2020Explain why a rucksack with wide, padded straps is more comfortable to carry than one with thin straps, for the same load.
- 25th November 2020State the three factors needed for a current-carrying wire to experience a force due to the motor effect.
- 26th November 2020Name the apparatus used to estimate the population of a slow-moving or non-moving species in a field.
- 27th November 2020State two ways that bile aids the digestion of fats.
- 28th November 2020Define a communicable disease.
- 29th November 2020A patient's core body temperature has fallen to 35 degrees Celsius. State two physical responses their body makes to raise it back toward normal.
- 30th November 2020Explain one reason it took many years for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to become widely accepted.