Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
February 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1961Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 2nd February 1961Suggest 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.
- 3rd February 1961A 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.
- 4th February 1961Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 5th February 1961Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 6th February 1961A 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.
- 7th February 1961What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 8th February 1961Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 9th February 1961Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 10th February 1961State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 11th February 1961A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 12th February 1961State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 13th February 1961State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 14th February 1961Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 15th February 1961Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 16th February 1961Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 17th February 1961What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 18th February 1961Define 'water security'.
- 19th February 1961State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 20th February 1961How does an arete form?
- 21st February 1961State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 22nd February 1961Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 23rd February 1961Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 24th February 1961Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 25th February 1961In 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.
- 26th February 1961What does GNI stand for?
- 27th February 1961A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 28th February 1961Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.