Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1956Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 2nd October 1956Define 'food miles'.
- 3rd October 1956Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 4th October 1956Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 5th October 1956Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 6th October 1956Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 7th October 1956What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 8th October 1956What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 9th October 1956Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 10th October 1956Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 11th October 1956Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 12th October 1956In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 13th October 1956Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 14th October 1956Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 15th October 1956Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 16th October 1956State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 17th October 1956Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 18th October 1956What is a glacial trough?
- 19th October 1956In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 20th October 1956Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 21st October 1956Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 22nd October 1956A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 23rd October 1956On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 24th October 1956Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 25th October 1956Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 26th October 1956Suggest one risk that a community sack garden scheme in an informal settlement might face if it relies only on volunteer labour with no formal organisation.
- 27th October 1956A city fits solar panels to 500 homes, saving an average of 900 kWh per home per year. Calculate the total electricity saved across all 500 homes in one year.
- 28th October 1956Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 29th October 1956Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 30th October 1956A windfarm generates 640 GWh in one year. If this is expected to rise by 15% the following year, calculate the expected generation for that following year, to the nearest GWh.
- 31st October 1956What is a corrie (or cirque)?