Daily Practice · GCSE Science
August 2024 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in August 2024, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in August 2024
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2024State two ways of inducing a potential difference across a conductor using a magnetic field.
- 2nd August 2024State one structure found in a bacterial cell but not in an animal cell.
- 3rd August 2024What is an enzyme?
- 4th August 2024Describe phagocytosis.
- 5th August 2024A ruler is released and falls 20 cm before being caught. Using distance = 0.5 x g x time^2 with g = 9.8 m/s^2, calculate the reaction time, to 3 significant figures.
- 6th August 2024Name the equipment used to measure the abundance of a small plant species within a sample area.
- 7th August 2024Define a finite resource, giving one example.
- 8th August 2024State one reason why simple covalent substances such as chlorine have low melting points.
- 9th August 2024Give the formula for percentage yield.
- 10th August 2024A student reacts excess zinc powder with 25 cm3 of copper sulfate solution in a polystyrene cup. The starting temperature is 21.0 degrees C and the maximum temperature reached is 58.5 degrees C. Calculate the temperature change.
- 11th August 2024Define the term 'hydrocarbon'.
- 12th August 2024State two advantages of instrumental methods of analysis, such as GC-MS, compared with manual chemical tests.
- 13th August 2024Distinguish repeatability from reproducibility.
- 14th August 2024How does the resistance of a thermistor change as it gets hotter?
- 15th August 2024What is an alpha particle made of?
- 16th August 2024A shopping trolley has a mass of 25 kg. Calculate its weight, taking g = 9.8 N/kg.
- 17th August 2024A student wraps a coil of insulated wire around an iron nail and connects it to a battery. Name the device this creates, and state one way to increase its magnetic field strength.
- 18th August 2024Explain 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.
- 19th August 2024Explain why a plant cell placed in pure water does not burst.
- 20th August 2024A student measures the mean diameter of a zone of inhibition as 12 mm. Calculate its radius.
- 21st August 2024Explain, in terms of respiration, why a build-up of lactic acid causes muscle fatigue during vigorous exercise.
- 22nd August 2024A man has genotype XY. State his sex, and state which sex chromosomes are found in the sperm cells he produces.
- 23rd August 2024In the rate experiment where a cross disappears, why is the result subjective?
- 24th August 2024An atom has an atomic number of 17 and a mass number of 37. How many neutrons does it have?
- 25th August 2024Calculate the number of moles in 20 g of calcium carbonate. (Mr = 100)
- 26th August 2024In the industrial extraction of aluminium, explain why the aluminium oxide is dissolved in molten cryolite rather than melted on its own.
- 27th August 2024Explain why increasing the surface area of a solid reactant increases the rate of a reaction.
- 28th August 2024A solid gives a lilac flame test. Name the metal ion present.
- 29th August 2024Name the two additional products that can form during the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel.
- 30th August 2024Give the equation for efficiency in terms of energy.
- 31st August 2024Calculate the mass of 0.5 cubic metres of a material of density 2400 kilograms per cubic metre.