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March 1958 5-a-day

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March 1958

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 1958

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st March 1958In 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.
  2. 2nd March 1958What does GNI stand for?
  3. 3rd March 1958A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
  4. 4th March 1958Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
  5. 5th March 1958State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
  6. 6th March 1958Define 'food miles'.
  7. 7th March 1958Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
  8. 8th March 1958Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
  9. 9th March 1958Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
  10. 10th March 1958Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
  11. 11th March 1958Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  12. 12th March 1958Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
  13. 13th March 1958Give 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.
  14. 14th March 1958Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
  15. 15th March 1958Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
  16. 16th March 1958A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
  17. 17th March 1958What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
  18. 18th March 1958Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
  19. 19th March 1958Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
  20. 20th March 1958State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
  21. 21st March 1958What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
  22. 22nd March 1958Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
  23. 23rd March 1958Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
  24. 24th March 1958Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
  25. 25th March 1958Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
  26. 26th March 1958State one reason why a pie chart, rather than a bar chart, is the better choice for showing how a household's monthly budget is divided between four spending categories.
  27. 27th March 1958On a radial graph comparing five services, a spoke with a small enclosed area close to the centre indicates what about that service?
  28. 28th March 1958What name is given to aid provided immediately after a disaster to meet urgent needs such as food and shelter?
  29. 29th March 1958A storage tank collects water from a roof with an area of 40 square metres. In a storm, 10mm of rain falls and the system captures 90 percent of it. Calculate the volume collected, in litres.
  30. 30th March 1958State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
  31. 31st March 1958Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.