Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
February 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1960In 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.
- 2nd February 1960What does GNI stand for?
- 3rd February 1960A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 4th February 1960Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 5th February 1960State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 6th February 1960State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 7th February 1960Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 8th February 1960Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 9th February 1960Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 10th February 1960Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 11th February 1960Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 12th February 1960Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 13th February 1960Give 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.
- 14th February 1960Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 15th February 1960Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 16th February 1960A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 17th February 1960What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 18th February 1960Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 19th February 1960What is a water transfer scheme?
- 20th February 1960State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 21st February 1960What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 22nd February 1960Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
- 23rd February 1960Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
- 24th February 1960Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
- 25th February 1960Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
- 26th February 1960State 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.
- 27th February 1960On a radial graph comparing five services, a spoke with a small enclosed area close to the centre indicates what about that service?
- 28th February 1960What name is given to aid provided immediately after a disaster to meet urgent needs such as food and shelter?
- 29th February 1960A 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.