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March 1967 5-a-day

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March 1967

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st March 1967State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
  2. 2nd March 1967In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
  3. 3rd March 1967State the law of reflection.
  4. 4th March 1967A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
  5. 5th March 1967State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
  6. 6th March 1967State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
  7. 7th March 1967A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
  8. 8th March 1967Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
  9. 9th March 1967Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
  10. 10th March 1967What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  11. 11th March 1967Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  12. 12th March 1967A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  13. 13th March 1967Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
  14. 14th March 1967A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  15. 15th March 1967A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
  16. 16th March 1967Work out 40% of 65.
  17. 17th March 1967A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  18. 18th March 1967p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  19. 19th March 1967Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  20. 20th March 1967Work out 5/6 of 90.
  21. 21st March 1967A 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.
  22. 22nd March 1967A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
  23. 23rd March 1967Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
  24. 24th March 1967State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
  25. 25th March 1967Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
  26. 26th March 1967Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
  27. 27th March 1967State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
  28. 28th March 1967Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
  29. 29th March 1967A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
  30. 30th March 1967A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
  31. 31st March 1967What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?