Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
September 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1959Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 2nd September 1959State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 3rd September 1959Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 4th September 1959Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 5th September 1959Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 6th September 1959Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 7th September 1959Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 8th September 1959Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 9th September 1959Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 10th September 1959Give 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.
- 11th September 1959Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 12th September 1959Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 13th September 1959A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 14th September 1959What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 15th September 1959Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 16th September 1959What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 17th September 1959State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 18th September 1959What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 19th September 1959Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
- 20th September 1959Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
- 21st September 1959Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
- 22nd September 1959Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
- 23rd September 1959State 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.
- 24th September 1959On a radial graph comparing five services, a spoke with a small enclosed area close to the centre indicates what about that service?
- 25th September 1959What name is given to aid provided immediately after a disaster to meet urgent needs such as food and shelter?
- 26th September 1959A 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.
- 27th September 1959State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 28th September 1959Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 29th September 1959Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 30th September 1959Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.