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December 1965 5-a-day

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December 1965

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in December 1965

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 1965Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
  2. 2nd December 1965A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
  3. 3rd December 1965Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
  4. 4th December 1965Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
  5. 5th December 1965Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
  6. 6th December 1965A 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.
  7. 7th December 1965State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
  8. 8th December 1965Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
  9. 9th December 1965State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
  10. 10th December 1965In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
  11. 11th December 1965Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
  12. 12th December 1965Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
  13. 13th December 1965Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
  14. 14th December 1965Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
  15. 15th December 1965Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
  16. 16th December 1965Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
  17. 17th December 1965A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
  18. 18th December 1965Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
  19. 19th December 1965Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  20. 20th December 1965Find 2/9 of 63.
  21. 21st December 1965Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
  22. 22nd December 1965A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
  23. 23rd December 1965Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  24. 24th December 1965A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
  25. 25th December 1965A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  26. 26th December 1965The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
  27. 27th December 1965Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
  28. 28th December 1965A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
  29. 29th December 1965Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
  30. 30th December 1965Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
  31. 31st December 1965State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.