Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1976In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 2nd January 1976Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 3rd January 1976Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 4th January 1976A 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.
- 5th January 1976State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 6th January 1976Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 7th January 1976What is a glacial trough?
- 8th January 1976In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 9th January 1976Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 10th January 1976Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 11th January 1976A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 12th January 1976On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 13th January 1976Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 14th January 1976Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 15th January 1976Suggest 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.
- 16th January 1976A 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.
- 17th January 1976State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 18th January 1976Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 19th January 1976A 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.
- 20th January 1976What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 21st January 1976Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 22nd January 1976Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 23rd January 1976State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 24th January 1976A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 25th January 1976State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 26th January 1976State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 27th January 1976Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 28th January 1976Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 29th January 1976Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 30th January 1976What is a water transfer scheme?
- 31st January 1976Define 'water security'.