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November 1969 5-a-day

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November 1969

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in November 1969

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

  1. 1st November 1969Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
  2. 2nd November 1969Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
  3. 3rd November 1969Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Last week, the team trains hard and wins every match.
  4. 4th November 1969In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
  5. 5th November 1969A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
  6. 6th November 1969Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
  7. 7th November 1969Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
  8. 8th November 1969Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
  9. 9th November 1969A leaflet states: 'Experts agree that recycling just one more item a week could transform our town's waste problem.' Name one persuasive technique used here.
  10. 10th November 1969Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
  11. 11th November 1969A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  12. 12th November 1969Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
  13. 13th November 1969Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
  14. 14th November 1969A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
  15. 15th November 1969Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
  16. 16th November 1969A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
  17. 17th November 1969A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
  18. 18th November 1969A 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.
  19. 19th November 1969Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
  20. 20th November 1969A 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.
  21. 21st November 1969State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
  22. 22nd November 1969A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
  23. 23rd November 1969Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
  24. 24th November 1969A 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.
  25. 25th November 1969A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
  26. 26th November 1969Punctuate 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
  27. 27th November 1969Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
  28. 28th November 1969A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
  29. 29th November 1969A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  30. 30th November 1969If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?