Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1961Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 2nd October 1961State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 3rd October 1961A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 4th October 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.
- 5th October 1961State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 6th October 1961Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 7th October 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.
- 8th October 1961Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 9th October 1961A 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.
- 10th October 1961Define 'water security'.
- 11th October 1961State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 12th October 1961How does an arete form?
- 13th October 1961State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 14th October 1961Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 15th October 1961Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 16th October 1961Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 17th October 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.
- 18th October 1961What does GNI stand for?
- 19th October 1961A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 20th October 1961Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 21st October 1961State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 22nd October 1961State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 23rd October 1961Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 24th October 1961Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 25th October 1961Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 26th October 1961Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 27th October 1961Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 28th October 1961Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 29th October 1961Give 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.
- 30th October 1961Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 31st October 1961Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).