Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
September 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1983Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 2nd September 1983Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 3rd September 1983Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 4th September 1983What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 5th September 1983What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 6th September 1983Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 7th September 1983Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 8th September 1983Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 9th September 1983In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 10th September 1983Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 11th September 1983Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 12th September 1983A 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.
- 13th September 1983State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 14th September 1983Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 15th September 1983What is a glacial trough?
- 16th September 1983In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 17th September 1983Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 18th September 1983Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 19th September 1983A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 20th September 1983On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 21st September 1983Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 22nd September 1983Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 23rd September 1983Suggest 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.
- 24th September 1983A 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.
- 25th September 1983State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 26th September 1983Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 27th September 1983A 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.
- 28th September 1983What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 29th September 1983Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 30th September 1983Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.