Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
February 1979 5-a-day
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.
- 1st February 1979Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 2nd February 1979Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 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.
- 4th February 1979What does GNI stand for?
- 5th February 1979A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 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.
- 7th February 1979State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 8th February 1979Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 9th February 1979Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 10th February 1979Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 11th February 1979Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 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.
- 13th February 1979Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 14th February 1979Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 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.
- 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.
- 17th February 1979Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 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?
- 19th February 1979What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 20th February 1979Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 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.
- 22nd February 1979State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 23rd February 1979What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 24th February 1979Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
- 25th February 1979Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
- 26th February 1979Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
- 27th February 1979Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
- 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.