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August 1974 5-a-day

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August 1974

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in August 1974

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

  1. 1st August 1974Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
  2. 2nd August 1974A 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.
  3. 3rd August 1974Define 'water security'.
  4. 4th August 1974State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
  5. 5th August 1974How does an arete form?
  6. 6th August 1974State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
  7. 7th August 1974Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  8. 8th August 1974Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
  9. 9th August 1974Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
  10. 10th August 1974In 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.
  11. 11th August 1974What does GNI stand for?
  12. 12th August 1974A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
  13. 13th August 1974Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
  14. 14th August 1974State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
  15. 15th August 1974State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
  16. 16th August 1974Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
  17. 17th August 1974Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
  18. 18th August 1974Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
  19. 19th August 1974Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
  20. 20th August 1974Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  21. 21st August 1974Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
  22. 22nd August 1974Give 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.
  23. 23rd August 1974Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
  24. 24th August 1974Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
  25. 25th August 1974A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
  26. 26th August 1974What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
  27. 27th August 1974Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
  28. 28th August 1974What is a water transfer scheme?
  29. 29th August 1974State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
  30. 30th August 1974What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
  31. 31st August 1974Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.