Daily Practice · GCSE Science
November 2024 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in November 2024, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in November 2024
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2024State two products, other than water, that can be formed during the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon.
- 2nd November 2024State one advantage of running known reference substances alongside an unknown sample on the same chromatogram, rather than only comparing to published Rf values.
- 3rd November 2024How is the uncertainty in a set of repeated readings usually estimated?
- 4th November 2024Define electric current.
- 5th November 2024A source has a half-life of 5 days and an initial activity of 1600 Bq. What is its activity after 15 days?
- 6th November 2024Explain why a larger vehicle mass increases braking distance.
- 7th November 2024State the type of force that always acts between an induced magnet and the magnet that induced it.
- 8th November 2024Name the model of the origin of the universe that is supported by red-shift observations.
- 9th November 2024Calculate the surface area to volume ratio of a cube of side 2 cm.
- 10th November 2024Explain 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.
- 11th November 2024Define oxygen debt.
- 12th November 2024Explain one benefit of the Human Genome Project.
- 13th November 2024Give the resolution of a burette that can be read to the nearest half of a small division.
- 14th November 2024Why is an atom electrically neutral?
- 15th November 2024State the law of conservation of mass.
- 16th November 2024Explain why solid sodium chloride does not conduct electricity, but molten sodium chloride does.
- 17th November 2024In the gas-volume required practical measuring how concentration affects rate, state one variable that should be controlled.
- 18th November 2024Give one piece of evidence that a solid sample is impure, based on its melting behaviour.
- 19th November 2024Explain why carbon monoxide is dangerous even though it has no smell.
- 20th November 2024Why can no device be 100 percent efficient?
- 21st November 2024Why is melting described as a physical change?
- 22nd November 2024A cyclist rides 300 m north then 300 m back south to the start. State the total distance travelled and total displacement.
- 23rd November 2024A wave travels from air into glass and slows down. State what happens to its direction, and explain why in terms of wavelength.
- 24th November 2024State what a nebula is, and explain its role in the life cycle of a star.
- 25th November 2024Convert 0.05 mm into micrometres.
- 26th November 2024State the function of the valves in the heart and in veins.
- 27th November 2024A lamp is placed 10 cm from pondweed. Calculate the relative light intensity using relative light intensity = 1 / distance^2.
- 28th November 2024Name the hormone released by the adrenal glands that prepares the body for fight or flight.
- 29th November 2024The Arctic fox has small, rounded ears compared with the desert fennec fox, which has very large ears. State whether this is a structural, behavioural or functional adaptation, and explain how it helps the Arctic fox survive.
- 30th November 2024Classify crude oil as finite or renewable, and justify your answer.