Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1959Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 2nd October 1959Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 3rd October 1959Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 4th October 1959What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 5th October 1959What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 6th October 1959Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 7th October 1959Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 8th October 1959Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 9th October 1959In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 10th October 1959Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 11th October 1959Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 12th October 1959A supermarket can import strawberries flown a distance of 8,400 km, or buy strawberries grown 240 km away in the UK. Calculate how many times further the imported strawberries travel than the UK-grown ones.
- 13th October 1959State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 14th October 1959Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 15th October 1959What is a glacial trough?
- 16th October 1959In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 17th October 1959Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 18th October 1959Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 19th October 1959A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 20th October 1959On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 21st October 1959Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 22nd October 1959Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 23rd October 1959Suggest 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.
- 24th October 1959A 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.
- 25th October 1959State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 26th October 1959Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 27th October 1959A 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.
- 28th October 1959What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 29th October 1959Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 30th October 1959Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 31st October 1959State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.