Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
August 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1963State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 2nd August 1963Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 3rd August 1963Define 'food miles'.
- 4th August 1963Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 5th August 1963Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 6th August 1963Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 7th August 1963Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 8th August 1963What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 9th August 1963What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 10th August 1963Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 11th August 1963Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 12th August 1963Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 13th August 1963In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 14th August 1963Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 15th August 1963Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 16th August 1963Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 17th August 1963State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 18th August 1963Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 19th August 1963What is a glacial trough?
- 20th August 1963In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 21st August 1963Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 22nd August 1963Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 23rd August 1963A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 24th August 1963On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 25th August 1963Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 26th August 1963Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 27th August 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.
- 28th August 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.
- 29th August 1963Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 30th August 1963Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 31st August 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.