Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
September 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1979Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 2nd September 1979Suggest 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.
- 3rd September 1979A 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.
- 4th September 1979Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 5th September 1979Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 6th September 1979A 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.
- 7th September 1979What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 8th September 1979Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 9th September 1979Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 10th September 1979State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 11th September 1979A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 12th September 1979State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 13th September 1979State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 14th September 1979Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 15th September 1979Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 16th September 1979Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 17th September 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.
- 18th September 1979Define 'water security'.
- 19th September 1979State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 20th September 1979How does an arete form?
- 21st September 1979State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 22nd September 1979Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 23rd September 1979Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 24th September 1979Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 25th September 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.
- 26th September 1979What does GNI stand for?
- 27th September 1979A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 28th September 1979Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 29th September 1979State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 30th September 1979State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.