Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1985Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 2nd January 1985Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 3rd January 1985Suggest 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.
- 4th January 1985A 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.
- 5th January 1985Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 6th January 1985Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 7th January 1985A 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.
- 8th January 1985What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 9th January 1985Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 10th January 1985Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 11th January 1985State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 12th January 1985A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 13th January 1985State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 14th January 1985State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 15th January 1985Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 16th January 1985Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 17th January 1985Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 18th January 1985What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 19th January 1985Define 'water security'.
- 20th January 1985State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 21st January 1985How does an arete form?
- 22nd January 1985State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 23rd January 1985Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 24th January 1985Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 25th January 1985Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 26th January 1985In 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.
- 27th January 1985What does GNI stand for?
- 28th January 1985A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 29th January 1985Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 30th January 1985State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 31st January 1985Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.