4-mark practice questions — Eduqas GCSE Physics
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How to answer
4-mark questions are the shortest levels-of-response band. Aim for four scientific ideas, each in its own short sentence.
Sample questions
- A scientist is studying pressure differences in the ocean. Explain why a sealed plastic bottle, which is partially fille…
- Explain why adding more identical resistors in series to a circuit causes the current in the circuit to decrease, whilst…
- Describe what is meant by the pressure of a gas, and explain how increasing the temperature of a gas at constant volume …
- Scientists have observed that light from almost all distant galaxies is red-shifted, and that galaxies further away show…
- Explain why sound waves are described as longitudinal waves and how they are able to travel through air.
- Explain what happens to the current in a circuit when the resistance is increased, and use the concept of potential diff…
- A student connects three lamps in a parallel circuit. Describe two differences between a parallel circuit and a series c…
- A fixed quantity of gas is compressed to a smaller volume at constant temperature. Explain, in terms of particles, why t…