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August 1969 5-a-day

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August 1969

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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

  1. 1st August 1969Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves through tiny pores called stomata.
  2. 2nd August 1969Name the structure inside a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.
  3. 3rd August 1969Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
  4. 4th August 1969A pupil is choosing between two thermometers to measure a temperature change of about 5 degrees C: one has markings every 2 degrees C, and the other has markings every 0.2 degrees C. State which thermometer would give the more precise reading, and explain why.
  5. 5th August 1969Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
  6. 6th August 1969Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
  7. 7th August 1969A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
  8. 8th August 1969A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
  9. 9th August 1969A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
  10. 10th August 1969Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
  11. 11th August 1969A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
  12. 12th August 1969A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
  13. 13th August 1969Work out -4 - 7.
  14. 14th August 1969Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
  15. 15th August 1969Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
  16. 16th August 1969A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
  17. 17th August 1969Calculate 56 + 29.
  18. 18th August 1969Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
  19. 19th August 1969A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
  20. 20th August 1969Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
  21. 21st August 1969State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
  22. 22nd August 1969State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
  23. 23rd August 1969State the law of reflection.
  24. 24th August 1969A 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).
  25. 25th August 1969A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
  26. 26th August 1969Name the three states of matter.
  27. 27th August 1969In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
  28. 28th August 1969Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
  29. 29th August 1969Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
  30. 30th August 1969Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
  31. 31st August 1969Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.