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July 1964 5-a-day

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July 1964

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st July 1964A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
  2. 2nd July 1964Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
  3. 3rd July 1964Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
  4. 4th July 1964A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
  5. 5th July 1964State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
  6. 6th July 1964State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
  7. 7th July 1964A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
  8. 8th July 1964A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
  9. 9th July 1964A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
  10. 10th July 1964What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  11. 11th July 1964A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
  12. 12th July 1964Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
  13. 13th July 1964Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
  14. 14th July 1964Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
  15. 15th July 1964Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
  16. 16th July 1964A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
  17. 17th July 1964In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
  18. 18th July 1964A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  19. 19th July 1964Simplify the ratio 32:12.
  20. 20th July 1964A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
  21. 21st July 1964Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
  22. 22nd July 1964Factorise fully 10x + 15.
  23. 23rd July 1964Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
  24. 24th July 1964Write 3/8 as a percentage.
  25. 25th July 1964State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
  26. 26th July 1964State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
  27. 27th July 1964State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
  28. 28th July 1964State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
  29. 29th July 1964State the unit used to measure electric current.
  30. 30th July 1964State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
  31. 31st July 1964This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.