Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 2022 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in November 2022, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in November 2022
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2022Explain why red-shift observations support the idea that the universe is expanding, rather than Earth simply being at the centre of the universe with everything moving away from it.
- 2nd November 2022Define osmosis.
- 3rd November 2022State one way that pathogens can be spread from person to person.
- 4th November 2022Explain, in terms of respiration, why a build-up of lactic acid causes muscle fatigue during vigorous exercise.
- 5th November 2022A man has genotype XY. State his sex, and state which sex chromosomes are found in the sperm cells he produces.
- 6th November 2022A gas syringe collects 48 cubic centimetres of gas in 40 seconds. Calculate the mean rate.
- 7th November 2022Why do isotopes of an element react in the same way?
- 8th November 2022Calculate the Mr of calcium carbonate, CaCO3. (Ca = 40, C = 12, O = 16)
- 9th November 2022In the industrial extraction of aluminium, explain why the aluminium oxide is dissolved in molten cryolite rather than melted on its own.
- 10th November 2022Explain why increasing the surface area of a solid reactant increases the rate of a reaction.
- 11th November 2022State the reagent added, and the result, that shows a white solid contains sulfate ions.
- 12th November 2022State the two products of the complete combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel.
- 13th November 2022State one way to increase the efficiency of a motor.
- 14th November 2022Why is the density of a gas much lower than that of the same substance as a liquid?
- 15th November 2022State whether friction is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 16th November 2022A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz. Calculate its period.
- 17th November 2022Explain, in terms of forces, why an orbiting satellite does not travel off in a straight line.
- 18th November 2022Name two structures found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 19th November 2022Why is the wall of the left ventricle thicker than that of the right ventricle?
- 20th November 2022Complete the word equation for anaerobic respiration in yeast: glucose -> ___ + ___
- 21st November 2022State one risk factor linked to type 2 diabetes.
- 22nd November 2022State one abiotic factor that can affect the population of fish living in a pond.
- 23rd November 2022Give one reason distillation of seawater requires a large energy input.
- 24th November 2022What type of bonding is present in a compound formed between a metal and a non-metal?
- 25th November 2022A student reacts 2.4 g of magnesium with excess dilute hydrochloric acid: Mg + 2HCl -> MgCl2 + H2. Relative atomic mass of Mg = 24. Calculate the number of moles of hydrogen gas produced.
- 26th November 2022State the two substances that react inside a hydrogen fuel cell.
- 27th November 2022Define the term 'homologous series'.
- 28th November 2022Name the two gases released in large amounts by volcanic activity that formed most of the Earth's early atmosphere.
- 29th November 2022Name the energy store associated with a moving car.
- 30th November 2022State the potential difference and frequency of the UK mains supply.