Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
September 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1972State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 2nd September 1972How does an arete form?
- 3rd September 1972State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 4th September 1972Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 5th September 1972Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 6th September 1972Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 7th September 1972In 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.
- 8th September 1972What does GNI stand for?
- 9th September 1972A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 10th September 1972Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 11th September 1972State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 12th September 1972Define 'food miles'.
- 13th September 1972Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 14th September 1972Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 15th September 1972Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 16th September 1972Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 17th September 1972Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 18th September 1972Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 19th September 1972Give 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.
- 20th September 1972Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 21st September 1972Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 22nd September 1972A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 23rd September 1972What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 24th September 1972Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 25th September 1972Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 26th September 1972State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 27th September 1972What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 28th September 1972Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
- 29th September 1972Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
- 30th September 1972Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.