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August 1974 5-a-day

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August 1974

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in August 1974

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 1974Work out -3 - 6.
  2. 2nd August 1974Work out -9 + 15.
  3. 3rd August 1974Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
  4. 4th August 1974Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
  5. 5th August 1974State the law of reflection.
  6. 6th August 1974A 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).
  7. 7th August 1974Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
  8. 8th August 1974State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
  9. 9th August 1974A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
  10. 10th August 1974Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
  11. 11th August 1974Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
  12. 12th August 1974What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  13. 13th August 1974Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  14. 14th August 1974A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  15. 15th August 1974Add 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.)
  16. 16th August 1974A 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?
  17. 17th August 1974Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
  18. 18th August 1974Work out 40% of 65.
  19. 19th August 1974A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  20. 20th August 1974p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  21. 21st August 1974Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  22. 22nd August 1974Work out 5/6 of 90.
  23. 23rd August 1974A 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.
  24. 24th August 1974A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
  25. 25th August 1974Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
  26. 26th August 1974Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
  27. 27th August 1974A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
  28. 28th August 1974Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
  29. 29th August 1974State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
  30. 30th August 1974State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
  31. 31st August 1974A 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.