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April 1973 5-a-day

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April 1973

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 1973

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

  1. 1st April 1973Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
  2. 2nd April 1973A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
  3. 3rd April 1973On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
  4. 4th April 1973Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
  5. 5th April 1973Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
  6. 6th April 1973Suggest 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.
  7. 7th April 1973A 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.
  8. 8th April 1973Define 'food miles'.
  9. 9th April 1973Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
  10. 10th April 1973A 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.
  11. 11th April 1973What is a corrie (or cirque)?
  12. 12th April 1973Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
  13. 13th April 1973Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
  14. 14th April 1973State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
  15. 15th April 1973A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
  16. 16th April 1973State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
  17. 17th April 1973State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
  18. 18th April 1973Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
  19. 19th April 1973Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
  20. 20th April 1973Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
  21. 21st April 1973Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
  22. 22nd April 1973Define 'water security'.
  23. 23rd April 1973State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
  24. 24th April 1973How does an arete form?
  25. 25th April 1973State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
  26. 26th April 1973Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  27. 27th April 1973Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
  28. 28th April 1973Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
  29. 29th April 1973In 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.
  30. 30th April 1973What does GNI stand for?