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November 1962 5-a-day

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November 1962

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in November 1962

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

  1. 1st November 1962In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
  2. 2nd November 1962A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
  3. 3rd November 1962State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
  4. 4th November 1962State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
  5. 5th November 1962State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
  6. 6th November 1962A 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?
  7. 7th November 1962Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
  8. 8th November 1962Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
  9. 9th November 1962Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
  10. 10th November 1962A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
  11. 11th November 1962A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
  12. 12th November 1962In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
  13. 13th November 1962Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
  14. 14th November 1962A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
  15. 15th November 1962Work out 9 x 8.
  16. 16th November 1962Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
  17. 17th November 1962y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
  18. 18th November 1962Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
  19. 19th November 1962Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
  20. 20th November 1962A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
  21. 21st November 1962State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
  22. 22nd November 1962Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
  23. 23rd November 1962State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
  24. 24th November 1962Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
  25. 25th November 1962A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
  26. 26th November 1962State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
  27. 27th November 1962Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
  28. 28th November 1962Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
  29. 29th November 1962In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
  30. 30th November 1962A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?