Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
July 1970 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1970
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1970A 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.
- 2nd July 1970What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 3rd July 1970Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 4th July 1970Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 5th July 1970State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 6th July 1970A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 7th July 1970State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 8th July 1970State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 9th July 1970Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 10th July 1970Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 11th July 1970Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 12th July 1970What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 13th July 1970Define 'water security'.
- 14th July 1970State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 15th July 1970How does an arete form?
- 16th July 1970State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 17th July 1970Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 18th July 1970Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 19th July 1970Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 20th July 1970In 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.
- 21st July 1970What does GNI stand for?
- 22nd July 1970A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 23rd July 1970Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 24th July 1970State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 25th July 1970Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 26th July 1970Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 27th July 1970Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 28th July 1970Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 29th July 1970Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 30th July 1970Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 31st July 1970Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?