Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
April 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1977State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 2nd April 1977Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 3rd April 1977Define 'food miles'.
- 4th April 1977Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 5th April 1977Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 6th April 1977Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 7th April 1977Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 8th April 1977What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 9th April 1977What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 10th April 1977Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 11th April 1977Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 12th April 1977Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 13th April 1977In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 14th April 1977Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 15th April 1977Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 16th April 1977Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 17th April 1977State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 18th April 1977Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 19th April 1977What is a glacial trough?
- 20th April 1977In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 21st April 1977Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 22nd April 1977Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 23rd April 1977A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 24th April 1977On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 25th April 1977Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 26th April 1977Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 27th April 1977Suggest 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.
- 28th April 1977A 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.
- 29th April 1977Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 30th April 1977Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.