Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
February 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1980A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 2nd February 1980On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 3rd February 1980Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 4th February 1980Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 5th February 1980Suggest 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 February 1980A 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 February 1980Define 'food miles'.
- 8th February 1980Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 9th February 1980A 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 February 1980What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 11th February 1980Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 12th February 1980Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 13th February 1980State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 14th February 1980A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 15th February 1980State 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 February 1980State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 17th February 1980Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 18th February 1980Give 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 February 1980Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 20th February 1980Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 21st February 1980Define 'water security'.
- 22nd February 1980State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 23rd February 1980How does an arete form?
- 24th February 1980State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 25th February 1980Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 26th February 1980Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 27th February 1980Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 28th February 1980In 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 February 1980What does GNI stand for?