Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1973Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 2nd October 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.
- 3rd October 1973What does GNI stand for?
- 4th October 1973A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 5th October 1973Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 6th October 1973State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 7th October 1973State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 8th October 1973Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 9th October 1973Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 10th October 1973Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 11th October 1973Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 12th October 1973Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 13th October 1973Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 14th October 1973Give 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.
- 15th October 1973Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 16th October 1973Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 17th October 1973A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 18th October 1973What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 19th October 1973Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 20th October 1973What is a water transfer scheme?
- 21st October 1973State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 22nd October 1973What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 23rd October 1973Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
- 24th October 1973Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
- 25th October 1973Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
- 26th October 1973Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
- 27th October 1973State one reason why a pie chart, rather than a bar chart, is the better choice for showing how a household's monthly budget is divided between four spending categories.
- 28th October 1973On a radial graph comparing five services, a spoke with a small enclosed area close to the centre indicates what about that service?
- 29th October 1973What name is given to aid provided immediately after a disaster to meet urgent needs such as food and shelter?
- 30th October 1973A storage tank collects water from a roof with an area of 40 square metres. In a storm, 10mm of rain falls and the system captures 90 percent of it. Calculate the volume collected, in litres.
- 31st October 1973State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.