Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
April 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1957A 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.
- 2nd April 1957State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 3rd April 1957Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 4th April 1957A 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.
- 5th April 1957What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 6th April 1957Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 7th April 1957Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 8th April 1957State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 9th April 1957A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 10th April 1957State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 11th April 1957State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 12th April 1957Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 13th April 1957Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 14th April 1957Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 15th April 1957What is a water transfer scheme?
- 16th April 1957Define 'water security'.
- 17th April 1957State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 18th April 1957How does an arete form?
- 19th April 1957State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 20th April 1957Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 21st April 1957Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 22nd April 1957Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 23rd April 1957In Town S, five services are scored out of 100 as follows: Health 72, Education 58, Transport 64, Housing 80, Employment 66. Calculate the mean score across the five services.
- 24th April 1957What does GNI stand for?
- 25th April 1957A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 26th April 1957Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 27th April 1957State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 28th April 1957Define 'food miles'.
- 29th April 1957Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 30th April 1957Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.