Foundation Tier
You must have: Total Marks
Calculator, ruler, Periodic table (enclosed)
Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1) PAPER 2 Foundation Tier QP JUNE 2024
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•• Calculators may be used.
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You must show all your working out with your answer clearly identified at the
end of your solution.
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•• The total mark for this paper is 100.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
• Instructure
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
questions marked with an asterisk (*), marks will be awarded for your ability to
your answer logically, showing how the points that you make are related or
follow on from each other where appropriate.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Try to answer every question.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end. Turn over
(ii) Some spoons are made of wood or plastic, not metal.
The raw material for wooden spoons is trees and the raw material for plastic
spoons is crude oil.
Explain an advantage, other than cost, of using wood rather than plastic.
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, (b) Some people wear spectacles so that they can see more clearly.
(i) Which property of glass makes it suitable for use in spectacles?
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A glass does not conduct electricity
B glass is a poor conductor of heat
C glass is transparent
D glass shatters when dropped
(ii) Some spectacles have a coating made of nanoparticles on the glass.
Which statement describes nanoparticles?
(1)
A nanoparticles are larger than small molecules
B nanoparticles are a type of atom
C nanoparticles are very small molecules
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D nanoparticles are the monomers in DNA
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, (c) One nanoparticle has a cube shape that is shown in Figure 2.
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80 nm
Figure 2
Calculate the surface area of this nanoparticle.
surface area = area of one face × number of faces
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