Daily Practice · GCSE Science
December 2023 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in December 2023, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in December 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2023Name the products of protein digestion.
- 2nd December 2023State the difference between an antibiotic and a painkiller.
- 3rd December 2023State the type of effector that produces a physical response by contracting.
- 4th December 2023Give one example of a biotic factor that could affect a population of rabbits.
- 5th December 2023Name the four stages usually considered in a life cycle assessment of a product.
- 6th December 2023A student says that metals conduct electricity because they contain free-moving ions. Explain why this statement is incorrect, and give the correct explanation.
- 7th December 2023Convert 250 cubic centimetres into cubic decimetres.
- 8th December 2023A student heats solid copper carbonate strongly in a test tube, and it breaks down into copper oxide and carbon dioxide. Heating must be continued throughout the reaction for it to keep going. State whether this thermal decomposition reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain your reasoning.
- 9th December 2023Balance the equation for the complete combustion of methane: CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O
- 10th December 2023Write the formula for calculating an Rf value.
- 11th December 2023Readings have a mean of 20.0 cm and a range of 1.0 cm. Calculate the percentage uncertainty.
- 12th December 2023What happens to the total resistance when a second resistor is added in parallel, and why?
- 13th December 2023What happens inside the nucleus when a beta particle is emitted?
- 14th December 2023State two factors that increase a driver's thinking distance.
- 15th December 2023Name a typical material used to make a permanent magnet, and a typical material used to make an induced (temporary) magnet.
- 16th December 2023State, in one sentence, what the Big Bang model proposes about the early universe.
- 17th December 2023State three factors that increase the rate of diffusion.
- 18th December 2023Which type of pathogen causes athlete's foot, a fungal skin infection?
- 19th December 2023A yeast culture respires without oxygen. Name the two products of this reaction, and name one industrial process that relies on it.
- 20th December 2023A man who is a known carrier of cystic fibrosis (Ff) has children with a woman who has been confirmed to carry no cystic fibrosis allele at all (FF). Explain why none of their children can have cystic fibrosis.
- 21st December 2023What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
- 22nd December 2023What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
- 23rd December 2023Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
- 24th December 2023Concentrated sodium chloride solution (brine) is electrolysed using inert electrodes. State the products formed at the cathode and at the anode.
- 25th December 2023Explain why increasing temperature increases the rate of a reaction, referring to both the frequency and the energy of collisions.
- 26th December 2023Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
- 27th December 2023Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
- 28th December 2023Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
- 29th December 2023Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
- 30th December 2023A box has a driving force of 250 N forward and friction of 180 N backward. Calculate the resultant force, including its direction.
- 31st December 2023Sound waves travel through a steel rail at approximately 5900 m/s. A sound wave sent along the rail has a frequency of 2950 Hz. Calculate its wavelength.