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July 1965 5-a-day

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July 1965

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st July 1965A car's velocity increases from 5 m/s to 17 m/s in 4 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to calculate its acceleration.
  2. 2nd July 1965Name the reaction type in which a fuel reacts with oxygen, releasing energy as heat and light.
  3. 3rd July 1965Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
  4. 4th July 1965Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
  5. 5th July 1965Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Bring your boots shin pads and water bottle to training.
  6. 6th July 1965A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  7. 7th July 1965A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
  8. 8th July 1965Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
  9. 9th July 1965Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
  10. 10th July 1965A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
  11. 11th July 1965Name the persuasive technique used in this slogan: 'Save money. Save time. Save the planet.'
  12. 12th July 1965List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
  13. 13th July 1965A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  14. 14th July 1965Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
  15. 15th July 1965A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  16. 16th July 1965A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
  17. 17th July 1965Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
  18. 18th July 1965Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
  19. 19th July 1965Simplify the ratio 45:60.
  20. 20th July 1965A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
  21. 21st July 1965A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
  22. 22nd July 1965Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
  23. 23rd July 1965Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
  24. 24th July 1965State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
  25. 25th July 1965State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
  26. 26th July 1965A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
  27. 27th July 1965A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
  28. 28th July 1965Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
  29. 29th July 1965Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
  30. 30th July 1965In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
  31. 31st July 1965Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.