Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 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.
- 2nd October 1977State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 3rd October 1977Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 4th October 1977A 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.
- 5th October 1977What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 6th October 1977Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 7th October 1977Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 8th October 1977State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 9th October 1977A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 10th October 1977State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 11th October 1977State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 12th October 1977Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 13th October 1977Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 14th October 1977Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 15th October 1977What is a water transfer scheme?
- 16th October 1977Define 'water security'.
- 17th October 1977State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 18th October 1977How does an arete form?
- 19th October 1977State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 20th October 1977Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 21st October 1977Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 22nd October 1977Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 23rd October 1977In 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.
- 24th October 1977What does GNI stand for?
- 25th October 1977A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 26th October 1977Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 27th October 1977State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 28th October 1977Define 'food miles'.
- 29th October 1977Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 30th October 1977Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 31st October 1977Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.