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March 1966 5-a-day

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March 1966

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in March 1966

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

  1. 1st March 1966A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
  2. 2nd March 1966A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
  3. 3rd March 1966A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
  4. 4th March 1966Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
  5. 5th March 1966A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
  6. 6th March 1966State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
  7. 7th March 1966Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
  8. 8th March 1966Name one renewable energy resource.
  9. 9th March 1966Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
  10. 10th March 1966A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
  11. 11th March 1966Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
  12. 12th March 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
  13. 13th March 1966A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
  14. 14th March 1966A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  15. 15th March 1966If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
  16. 16th March 1966Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
  17. 17th March 1966If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
  18. 18th March 1966Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
  19. 19th March 1966Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
  20. 20th March 1966Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
  21. 21st March 1966A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
  22. 22nd March 1966Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
  23. 23rd March 1966Work out 8 x 6.
  24. 24th March 1966Find 3/5 of 45.
  25. 25th March 1966Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
  26. 26th March 1966Find 3/4 of 88.
  27. 27th March 1966A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
  28. 28th March 1966State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
  29. 29th March 1966A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
  30. 30th March 1966Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
  31. 31st March 1966A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.