Daily Practice · GCSE Science
July 2023 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in July 2023, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in July 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2023Describe the current-potential difference graph for a filament lamp.
- 2nd July 2023State the difference between irradiation and contamination.
- 3rd July 2023Explain, using Newton's Third Law, why a swimmer is able to push themselves forward by pushing backward against the water.
- 4th July 2023State what happens to the magnetic field around a straight current-carrying wire if the direction of the current is reversed.
- 5th July 2023State what red-shift shows about the motion of most distant galaxies.
- 6th July 2023Name the process that moves substances against a concentration gradient.
- 7th July 2023Explain why a small number of healthy volunteers are given a very low dose of a new drug in the first stage of a clinical trial.
- 8th July 2023State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 9th July 2023State one ethical concern raised by embryo screening.
- 10th July 2023Why is the burette rinsed with the solution it is going to contain rather than with water?
- 11th July 2023State the relative mass and relative charge of a neutron.
- 12th July 2023Calculate the Mr of Ca(OH)2. (Ca = 40, O = 16, H = 1)
- 13th July 2023State the name given to the negative electrode in electrolysis.
- 14th July 2023Explain why using a light sensor and data logger is more reliable than timing by eye in the disappearing cross practical.
- 15th July 2023Which reagent is added, and in what colour change, to test for chlorine gas?
- 16th July 2023Explain how solid carbon particulates released by combustion can cause global dimming.
- 17th July 2023A lamp is supplied with 60 J and transfers 6 J as light. Calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
- 18th July 2023Define specific latent heat of fusion.
- 19th July 2023A cyclist rides 300 m north then 300 m back south to the start. State the total distance travelled and total displacement.
- 20th July 2023Explain, in terms of particle motion, why a wave can transfer energy without transferring matter.
- 21st July 2023Name the region of the Solar System where most asteroids are found.
- 22nd July 2023Give the equation linking magnification, image size and real size.
- 23rd July 2023Give one advantage and one disadvantage of a stent.
- 24th July 2023A lamp is placed 10 cm from pondweed. Calculate the relative light intensity using relative light intensity = 1 / distance^2.
- 25th July 2023A person's blood glucose concentration is 4.8 mmol/dm^3 before breakfast and 7.2 mmol/dm^3 after breakfast. Calculate the increase in blood glucose concentration.
- 26th July 2023State what is meant by the term ecosystem.
- 27th July 2023Classify crude oil as finite or renewable, and justify your answer.
- 28th July 2023Describe metallic bonding.
- 29th July 2023Calculate the number of moles of sodium hydroxide in 200 cm3 of a 0.500 mol/dm3 solution.
- 30th July 2023State whether breaking a chemical bond requires energy or releases energy.
- 31st July 2023Propene (C3H6) reacts with steam in the presence of a catalyst. Name the catalyst, and name the type of compound formed.