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February 1979 5-a-day

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February 1979

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 1979

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st February 1979Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
  2. 2nd February 1979Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
  3. 3rd February 1979In 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.
  4. 4th February 1979What does GNI stand for?
  5. 5th February 1979A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
  6. 6th February 1979Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
  7. 7th February 1979State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
  8. 8th February 1979Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
  9. 9th February 1979Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
  10. 10th February 1979Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
  11. 11th February 1979Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
  12. 12th February 1979Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
  13. 13th February 1979Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  14. 14th February 1979Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
  15. 15th February 1979Give 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.
  16. 16th February 1979Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
  17. 17th February 1979Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
  18. 18th February 1979A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
  19. 19th February 1979What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
  20. 20th February 1979Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
  21. 21st February 1979A 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.
  22. 22nd February 1979State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
  23. 23rd February 1979What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
  24. 24th February 1979Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
  25. 25th February 1979Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
  26. 26th February 1979Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
  27. 27th February 1979Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
  28. 28th February 1979State one reason why a pie chart, rather than a bar chart, is the better choice for showing how a household's monthly budget is divided between four spending categories.