Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
March 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1978A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 2nd March 1978On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 3rd March 1978Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 4th March 1978Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 5th March 1978Suggest 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.
- 6th March 1978A 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.
- 7th March 1978Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 8th March 1978Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 9th March 1978A 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.
- 10th March 1978What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 11th March 1978Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 12th March 1978Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 13th March 1978State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 14th March 1978A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 15th March 1978State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 16th March 1978State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 17th March 1978Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 18th March 1978Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 19th March 1978Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 20th March 1978What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 21st March 1978Define 'water security'.
- 22nd March 1978State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 23rd March 1978How does an arete form?
- 24th March 1978State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 25th March 1978Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 26th March 1978Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 27th March 1978Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 28th March 1978In 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.
- 29th March 1978What does GNI stand for?
- 30th March 1978A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 31st March 1978Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.