Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
September 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1980Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 2nd September 1980Define 'food miles'.
- 3rd September 1980Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 4th September 1980Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 5th September 1980Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 6th September 1980Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 7th September 1980What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 8th September 1980What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 9th September 1980Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 10th September 1980Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 11th September 1980Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 12th September 1980In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 13th September 1980Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 14th September 1980Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 15th September 1980Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 16th September 1980State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 17th September 1980Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 18th September 1980What is a glacial trough?
- 19th September 1980In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 20th September 1980Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 21st September 1980Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 22nd September 1980A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 23rd September 1980On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 24th September 1980Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 25th September 1980Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 26th September 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.
- 27th September 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.
- 28th September 1980Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 29th September 1980Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 30th September 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.