AQA GCSE COMBINED SCIENCE TRILOGY HIGHER TIER PHYSICS PAPER 1H 2026 FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DETAILED PREP RESOURCE GRADED A+

AQA GCSE COMBINED SCIENCE TRILOGY
HIGHER TIER PHYSICS PAPER 1H 2026
FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
DETAILED PREP RESOURCE GRADED A+

⩥ How many different elements are there?
Answer: About 100


⩥ Where are all the elements shown in one place?
Answer: In the periodic table


⩥ How are elements represented in the periodic table?
Answer: Using chemical symbols e.g. O for oxygen


⩥ What is a compound?
Answer: A substance that contains two or more elements that are
chemically combined


⩥ What is a chemical reaction?
Answer: When one or more new substances are formed and there is
usually an energy change involved

, ⩥ What is a word equation?
Answer: A represenatation of a chemical reaction that includes reactants
and products


⩥ What are reactants?
Answer: The starting substances in a chemical reaction


⩥ What are products?
Answer: The substances that you end up with following a chemical
reaction


⩥ What is a chemical formula?
Answer: A formula using chemical symbols that shows which elements
are present and the proportions of each one


⩥ Which group of the periodic table are the alkali metals in?
Answer: Group 1


⩥ Which group of the periodic table are the halogens in?
Answer: Group 7


⩥ Which group of the periodic table are the noble gases in?
Answer: Group