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March 1976 5-a-day

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March 1976

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st March 1976A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  2. 2nd March 1976Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
  3. 3rd March 1976In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
  4. 4th March 1976Find 2/5 of 65.
  5. 5th March 1976Simplify the ratio 45:30.
  6. 6th March 1976Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
  7. 7th March 1976A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  8. 8th March 1976A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
  9. 9th March 1976A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
  10. 10th March 1976In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  11. 11th March 1976A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
  12. 12th March 1976The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
  13. 13th March 1976Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  14. 14th March 1976Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  15. 15th March 1976The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.
  16. 16th March 1976Name the type of rock formed when layers of sediment, such as sand or mud, are compressed together over a long period of time.
  17. 17th March 1976Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  18. 18th March 1976A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
  19. 19th March 1976Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
  20. 20th March 1976Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
  21. 21st March 1976What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
  22. 22nd March 1976Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
  23. 23rd March 1976Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
  24. 24th March 1976Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
  25. 25th March 1976What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  26. 26th March 1976Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
  27. 27th March 1976A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  28. 28th March 1976Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
  29. 29th March 1976Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  30. 30th March 1976A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  31. 31st March 1976Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.