Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
November 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1973Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 2nd November 1973Define 'food miles'.
- 3rd November 1973Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 4th November 1973Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 5th November 1973Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 6th November 1973Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 7th November 1973What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 8th November 1973What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 9th November 1973Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 10th November 1973Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 11th November 1973Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 12th November 1973In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 13th November 1973Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 14th November 1973Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 15th November 1973Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 16th November 1973State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 17th November 1973Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 18th November 1973What is a glacial trough?
- 19th November 1973In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 20th November 1973Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 21st November 1973Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 22nd November 1973A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 23rd November 1973On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 24th November 1973Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 25th November 1973Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 26th November 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.
- 27th November 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.
- 28th November 1973Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 29th November 1973Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 30th November 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.