Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 2021 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in November 2021, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in November 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2021State the UK mains supply frequency and typical potential difference.
- 2nd November 2021A gas is heated in a sealed rigid container. Explain what happens to the pressure.
- 3rd November 2021A car's velocity increases from 8 m/s to 20 m/s over 4 seconds. Calculate its acceleration.
- 4th November 2021State one medical use of X-rays and one safety precaution taken when X-rays are used in a hospital.
- 5th November 2021State two uses of artificial satellites.
- 6th November 2021Define an undifferentiated cell.
- 7th November 2021Which tissue transports water and mineral ions from the roots?
- 8th November 2021Give three uses of the glucose produced in photosynthesis.
- 9th November 2021State one difference between selective breeding and genetic engineering.
- 10th November 2021A peat bog covered an area of 850 hectares in 2015. By 2025, drainage for farmland had reduced the peat bog to 680 hectares. Calculate the percentage decrease in the area of the peat bog.
- 11th November 2021Explain why steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) is generally harder than pure iron.
- 12th November 2021Why do polymers have higher melting points than small molecules such as methane?
- 13th November 2021Complete: acid + metal carbonate gives ...
- 14th November 2021State the four factors that can increase the rate of a chemical reaction.
- 15th November 2021State the functional group found in all carboxylic acids.
- 16th November 2021Explain, in one sentence, why the oceans were able to form only after the early Earth had cooled.
- 17th November 2021By what factor does kinetic energy increase if speed is doubled?
- 18th November 2021A 1.5 kg block of iron is heated from 18 degrees C to 98 degrees C. The specific heat capacity of iron is 450 J/(kg degrees C). Calculate the change in thermal energy.
- 19th November 2021Define the term 'half-life' of a radioactive isotope.
- 20th November 2021State the speed at which all electromagnetic waves travel through a vacuum.
- 21st November 2021A transformer has 500 turns on its primary coil and 2500 turns on its secondary coil. State, with a reason, whether this is a step-up or a step-down transformer.
- 22nd November 2021State one structure found in a bacterial cell but not in an animal cell.
- 23rd November 2021Describe the positive result of the Biuret test.
- 24th November 2021What is tested during preclinical testing?
- 25th November 2021Name the two parts of the central nervous system (CNS).
- 26th November 2021Name the group of organisms that break down dead plant and animal matter, returning mineral ions to the soil.
- 27th November 2021Define a finite resource, giving one example.
- 28th November 2021State one reason why simple covalent substances such as chlorine have low melting points.
- 29th November 2021Why do companies prefer reactions with a high atom economy?
- 30th November 2021On a reaction profile diagram, the reactants are drawn at a higher energy level than the products. State whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.