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March 1971 5-a-day

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March 1971

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st March 1971Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
  2. 2nd March 1971Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
  3. 3rd March 1971A 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.
  4. 4th March 1971Define 'water security'.
  5. 5th March 1971State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
  6. 6th March 1971How does an arete form?
  7. 7th March 1971State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
  8. 8th March 1971Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  9. 9th March 1971Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
  10. 10th March 1971Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
  11. 11th March 1971In 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.
  12. 12th March 1971What does GNI stand for?
  13. 13th March 1971A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
  14. 14th March 1971Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
  15. 15th March 1971State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
  16. 16th March 1971State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
  17. 17th March 1971Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
  18. 18th March 1971Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
  19. 19th March 1971Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
  20. 20th March 1971Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
  21. 21st March 1971Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  22. 22nd March 1971Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
  23. 23rd March 1971Give 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.
  24. 24th March 1971Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
  25. 25th March 1971Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
  26. 26th March 1971A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
  27. 27th March 1971What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
  28. 28th March 1971Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
  29. 29th March 1971What is a water transfer scheme?
  30. 30th March 1971State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
  31. 31st March 1971What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?