Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
December 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1957State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 2nd December 1957Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 3rd December 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.
- 4th December 1957Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 5th December 1957Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 6th December 1957Define 'water security'.
- 7th December 1957State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 8th December 1957How does an arete form?
- 9th December 1957State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 10th December 1957Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 11th December 1957Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 12th December 1957Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 13th December 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.
- 14th December 1957What does GNI stand for?
- 15th December 1957A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 16th December 1957Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 17th December 1957State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 18th December 1957Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 19th December 1957Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 20th December 1957Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 21st December 1957Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 22nd December 1957Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 23rd December 1957Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 24th December 1957Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 25th December 1957Give one reason why a compound (divided) bar chart might be chosen over a simple bar chart when comparing rainfall from two different rain gauges each month.
- 26th December 1957Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 27th December 1957Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 28th December 1957A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 29th December 1957What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 30th December 1957Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 31st December 1957What is meant by 'resource security'?