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January 1984 5-a-day

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January 1984

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 1984

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st January 1984Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
  2. 2nd January 1984In 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.
  3. 3rd January 1984What does GNI stand for?
  4. 4th January 1984A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
  5. 5th January 1984Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
  6. 6th January 1984State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
  7. 7th January 1984State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
  8. 8th January 1984Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
  9. 9th January 1984Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
  10. 10th January 1984Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
  11. 11th January 1984Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
  12. 12th January 1984Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  13. 13th January 1984Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
  14. 14th January 1984Give 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.
  15. 15th January 1984Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
  16. 16th January 1984Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
  17. 17th January 1984A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
  18. 18th January 1984What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
  19. 19th January 1984Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
  20. 20th January 1984What is a water transfer scheme?
  21. 21st January 1984State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
  22. 22nd January 1984What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
  23. 23rd January 1984Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
  24. 24th January 1984Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
  25. 25th January 1984Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
  26. 26th January 1984Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
  27. 27th January 1984State 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.
  28. 28th January 1984On a radial graph comparing five services, a spoke with a small enclosed area close to the centre indicates what about that service?
  29. 29th January 1984What name is given to aid provided immediately after a disaster to meet urgent needs such as food and shelter?
  30. 30th January 1984A storage tank collects water from a roof with an area of 40 square metres. In a storm, 10mm of rain falls and the system captures 90 percent of it. Calculate the volume collected, in litres.
  31. 31st January 1984State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.