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February 2025 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in February 2025, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in February 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2025Explain why breathing rate and breathing depth both increase during exercise.
- 2nd February 2025In pea plants, purple flower colour (allele H) is dominant over white flower colour (allele h). State the phenotype of a plant with genotype Hh.
- 3rd February 2025Why is the burette rinsed with the solution it is going to contain rather than with water?
- 4th February 2025State the relative mass and relative charge of a neutron.
- 5th February 2025Calculate the Mr of Ca(OH)2. (Ca = 40, O = 16, H = 1)
- 6th February 2025State the two materials commonly used as inert electrodes in electrolysis, and explain why they must be inert.
- 7th February 2025Explain how a catalyst increases the rate of a reaction without being used up.
- 8th February 2025Which reagent is added, and in what colour change, to test for chlorine gas?
- 9th February 2025Explain how solid carbon particulates released by combustion can cause global dimming.
- 10th February 2025A lamp is supplied with 60 J and transfers 6 J as light. Calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
- 11th February 2025Define specific latent heat of fusion.
- 12th February 2025A gardener pushes a mower with a force of 60 N through a distance of 8.0 m. Calculate the work done. Use W = F x s.
- 13th February 2025Give one everyday example of a transverse wave and one everyday example of a longitudinal wave.
- 14th February 2025State what happens to the orbital speed needed for a stable orbit as the orbital radius increases.
- 15th February 2025Give the equation linking magnification, image size and real size.
- 16th February 2025Give one advantage and one disadvantage of a stent.
- 17th February 2025Name the organelle in a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.
- 18th February 2025Explain why type 1 diabetes is treated with insulin injections rather than tablets.
- 19th February 2025State what is meant by the term ecosystem.
- 20th February 2025Name one method used to sterilise fresh water during the production of potable water.
- 21st February 2025Describe metallic bonding.
- 22nd February 2025Write the word equation for the reaction between zinc and hydrochloric acid.
- 23rd February 2025State whether breaking a chemical bond requires energy or releases energy.
- 24th February 2025Name the alkene with the molecular formula C4H8.
- 25th February 2025State the approximate percentage of nitrogen in today's atmosphere.
- 26th February 2025A spring is compressed. Which energy store increases?
- 27th February 2025Why does the national grid transmit electricity at a very high potential difference?
- 28th February 2025Why is the atomic model a good example of how scientific models change?