Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1963A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 2nd January 1963On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 3rd January 1963Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 4th January 1963Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 5th January 1963Suggest 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.
- 6th January 1963A 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.
- 7th January 1963Define 'food miles'.
- 8th January 1963Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 9th January 1963A 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.
- 10th January 1963What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 11th January 1963Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 12th January 1963Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 13th January 1963State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 14th January 1963A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 15th January 1963State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 16th January 1963State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 17th January 1963Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 18th January 1963Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 19th January 1963Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 20th January 1963Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 21st January 1963Define 'water security'.
- 22nd January 1963State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 23rd January 1963How does an arete form?
- 24th January 1963State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 25th January 1963Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 26th January 1963Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 27th January 1963Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 28th January 1963In 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.
- 29th January 1963What does GNI stand for?
- 30th January 1963A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 31st January 1963Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.