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December 1960 5-a-day

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December 1960

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in December 1960

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 1960A trolley of mass 20 kg is pushed with a resultant force of 60 N. Use force = mass x acceleration to calculate its acceleration.
  2. 2nd December 1960A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
  3. 3rd December 1960Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
  4. 4th December 1960Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
  5. 5th December 1960A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
  6. 6th December 1960Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
  7. 7th December 1960Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
  8. 8th December 1960A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
  9. 9th December 1960Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
  10. 10th December 1960A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
  11. 11th December 1960Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
  12. 12th December 1960In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
  13. 13th December 1960An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
  14. 14th December 1960Find 30% of 150.
  15. 15th December 1960Work out 13^2.
  16. 16th December 1960Find 5/6 of 72.
  17. 17th December 1960A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
  18. 18th December 1960A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
  19. 19th December 1960Calculate 74 - 38.
  20. 20th December 1960Work out -7 + 15.
  21. 21st December 1960A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
  22. 22nd December 1960State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
  23. 23rd December 1960State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
  24. 24th December 1960A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
  25. 25th December 1960State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
  26. 26th December 1960A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
  27. 27th December 1960Name the three states of matter.
  28. 28th December 1960A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  29. 29th December 1960Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
  30. 30th December 1960Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
  31. 31st December 1960Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'