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GCSE Physics (9-1) AQA - Paper 1

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 55mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the same as Work Done?

a)

Power

b)

Energy Transferred

2.

What is Specific Heat Capacity?

a)

Amount of Energy needed to raise 1Kg of a substance by 1 C

b)

Amount of Energy needed for 1Kg of a substance to change state

3.

What is Specific Latent Heat?

a)

Amount of Energy needed to raise 1Kg of a substance by 1 C

b)

Amount of Energy needed for 1Kg of a substance to change state

4.

What is the specific latent heat of fusion?

a)

The amount of energy needed to melt 1 kg of a substance.

b)

The amount of energy needed to boil 1 kg of a substance.

c)

The amount of energy needed to condense 1 kg of a substance.

5.

What is Conduction?

a)

The process where Vibrating Particles Transfer Energy to Neighbouring Particles

b)

The process where energetic particles Move Away from Hotter to Cooler Regions

6.

What is Convection?

a)

The process where Vibrating Particles Transfer Energy to Neighbouring Particles

b)

The process where energetic particles Move Away from Hotter to Cooler Regions

7.

Which one is True?

a)

The greater the Resistance the Smaller the Current

b)

The greater the Resistance the Greater the Current

8.

Which one is a Battery?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
9.

Which one is a Fuse?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
10.

Which one is a Filament bulb?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
11.

Which one is a LED?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
12.

Which one is a Switch?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
13.

Which one is a Resistor?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
14.

Which one is a Variable Resistor?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
15.

Which one is a Diode?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
16.

Which one is a LDR?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
17.

Which one is a Thermistor?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
18.

Which one is the Graph for an Ohmic Conductor?

a)
b)
c)
19.

Which one is the Graph for an Filament Lamp?

a)
b)
c)
20.

Which one is the Graph for an Diode?

a)
b)
c)
21.

Which one is a LDR?

a)

It senses Light. The brighter the light the lower the resistance.

b)

It senses Temperature. The hotter the temperature the lower the resistance.

22.

Which one is a Thermistor?

a)

It senses Light. The brighter the light the lower the resistance.

b)

It senses Temperature. The hotter the temperature the lower the resistance.

23.

Which one is a Live Wire?

a)

Brown. Provides the alternating potential difference

b)

Blue. Completes the circuit and carries away current

c)

Green and Yellow. Only carries current when there is a fault

24.

Which one is a Neutral Wire?

a)

Brown. Provides the alternating potential difference

b)

Blue. Completes the circuit and carries away current

c)

Green and Yellow. Only carries current when there is a fault

25.

Which one is an Earth Wire?

a)

Brown. Provides the alternating potential difference

b)

Blue. Completes the circuit and carries away current

c)

Green and Yellow. Only carries current when there is a fault

26.

Which does the national grid use?

a)

High Potential Difference

b)

High Current

c)

Low Potential Difference

d)

Low Current

27.

What is the build up of static caused by?

a)

Friction

b)

Electrostatic Fields

28.

What happens to the amount of energy in a car's kinetic energy store when the car slows down?

a)

It remains the same.

b)

It decreases as some energy is transferred away to different energy stores.

c)

It decreases as some energy is destroyed.

29.

800 J of energy is supplied to a toaster with an efficiency of 25%. What is the useful output of the toaster?

a)

200 J

b)

775 J

c)

1000 J

30.

When a racket hits a ball, energy is transferred from the racket's kinetic energy store to the ball's kinetic energy store. This energy is transferred...

a)

...by heating.

b)

...electrically.

c)

...mechanically.

31.

Power is the...

a)

...conservation of momentum.

b)

...energy of a moving object.

c)

...rate of doing work.

32.

When a spring is compressed, which of these energy stores is energy transferred to?

a)

The spring's elastic potential energy store

b)

The spring's nuclear energy store

c)

The spring's magnetic energy store

33.

What is the name of a system in which there is no net change in the total energy?

a)

A closed system

b)

An open system

c)

A mechanical system

34.

Two materials with the same mass and different specific heat capacities are cooled by 10°C. Which material emits more energy?

a)

The material with the lower specific heat capacity

b)

The material with the higher heat capacity

35.

The internal energy of a system is equal to...

a)

...the total energy that its particles have in their kinetic energy stores.

b)

...the total energy that its particles have in their potential energy stores.

c)

...the total energy that its particles have in their kinetic and potential energy stores.

36.

Changes of state are different to chemical changes because...

a)

...changes of state can be reversed to recover the original properties of the material.

b)

...changes of state result in the creation of new substances.

c)

...changes of state cannot happen to gases.

37.

What happens to the mass of a substance when it changes from a solid to a liquid?

a)

It increases

b)

It decreases

c)

It stays the same

38.

What will happen to the pressure of a fixed volume of gas if its temperature is increased?

a)

It will decrease

b)

It will increase

c)

It will stay the same

39.

What is the name for atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons?

a)

Ions

b)

Isomers

c)

Isotopes

40.

What is the radius of an atom?

a)

1 x 10-10 m

b)

1 x 1010 m

c)

1/1000 m

41.

What is an ion?

a)

An atom of an element with a different number of neutrons

b)

An atom of an element with a different number of protons

c)

An atom of an element with a different number of electrons

42.

What is radioactive decay?

a)

An unstable nucleus breaks down to become more stable, giving off radiation

b)

An unstable atom breaks down to become more stable, giving off radiation

c)

An unstable element breaks down to become more stable, giving off radiation

d)

An unstable compound breaks down to become more stable, giving off radiation

43.

What is activity?

a)

The rate that nuclei decay

b)

The rate that ions decay

c)

The rate that protons decay

d)

The rate that electrons decay

44.

What is the unit of activity?

a)

Becquerels (Bq)

b)

Coulombs (C)

c)

Hertz (Hz)

d)

Pascals (Pa)

45.

What is count rate?

a)

Number of decays per second by a Geiger-Muller tube

b)

Number of ions per second by a Geiger-Muller tube

c)

Number of atoms per second by a Geiger-Muller tube

d)

Number of neutrons per second by a Geiger-Muller tube

46.

What is half life?

a)

The time taken for half of the nuclei in a sample to decay

b)

The time taken for half of the atoms in a sample to decay

c)

The time taken for half of the ions in a sample to decay

d)

The time taken for half of the neutrons in a sample to decay

47.

What is ionisation?

a)

The process of removing electrons from atoms

b)

The process of removing protons from atoms

c)

The process of removing neutrons from atoms

d)

The process of removing nucei from atoms

48.

What is mass number?

a)

Total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom

b)

Total number of protons and electrons in the nucleus of an atom

c)

Total number of neutrons and electrons in the nucleus of an atom

d)

Total number of particles that make up an atom

49.

What is atomic number?

a)

The number of protons in an atom

b)

The number of neutrons in an atom

c)

The total number of protons and neutrons in an atom

50.

What happens to an electron that absorbs electromagnetic radiation such as light?

a)

The electron moves away from the nucleus, to a higher energy level

b)

The electron moves closer to the nucleus, to a lower energy level

c)

The electron's position does not change

d)

The electron will be removed from the atom

51.

What happens to an electron that emits electromagnetic radiation such as light?

a)

The electron moves away from the nucleus, to a higher energy level

b)

The electron moves closer to the nucleus, to a lower energy level

c)

The electron's position does not change

d)

The electron will be removed from the atom

52.

Which model of the atom is JJ Thompson responsible for?

a)

Billiard ball model

b)

Plum pudding

c)

Nuclear model

d)

He is not responsible for a model, he contributed to understanding electron energy levels

53.

Which model of the atom is John Dalton responsible for?

a)

Billiard ball model

b)

Plum pudding

c)

Nuclear model

d)

He is not responsible for a model, he contributed to understanding electron energy levels

54.

Which model of the atom is Rutherford responsible for?

a)

Billiard ball model

b)

Plum pudding

c)

Nuclear model

d)

He is not responsible for a model, he contributed to understanding electron energy levels

55.

Which model of the atom is Niels Bohr responsible for?

a)

Billiard ball model

b)

Plum pudding

c)

Nuclear model

d)

He is not responsible for a model, he contributed to understanding electron energy levels