Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
June 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1973Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 2nd June 1973Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 3rd June 1973Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 4th June 1973What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 5th June 1973What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 6th June 1973Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 7th June 1973Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 8th June 1973Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 9th June 1973In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 10th June 1973Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 11th June 1973Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 12th June 1973A 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.
- 13th June 1973State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 14th June 1973Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 15th June 1973What is a glacial trough?
- 16th June 1973In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 17th June 1973Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 18th June 1973Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 19th June 1973A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 20th June 1973On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 21st June 1973Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 22nd June 1973Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 23rd June 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.
- 24th June 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.
- 25th June 1973State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 26th June 1973Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 27th June 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.
- 28th June 1973What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 29th June 1973Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 30th June 1973Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.