Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
June 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 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.
- 2nd June 1978State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 3rd June 1978Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 4th June 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.
- 5th June 1978Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 6th June 1978Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 7th June 1978Define 'water security'.
- 8th June 1978State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 9th June 1978How does an arete form?
- 10th June 1978State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 11th June 1978Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 12th June 1978Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 13th June 1978Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 14th June 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.
- 15th June 1978What does GNI stand for?
- 16th June 1978A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 17th June 1978Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 18th June 1978State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 19th June 1978Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 20th June 1978Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 21st June 1978Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 22nd June 1978Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 23rd June 1978Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 24th June 1978Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 25th June 1978Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 26th June 1978Give 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.
- 27th June 1978Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 28th June 1978Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 29th June 1978A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 30th June 1978What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?