Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
April 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 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.
- 2nd April 1985State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 3rd April 1985Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 4th April 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.
- 5th April 1985Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 6th April 1985Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 7th April 1985Define 'water security'.
- 8th April 1985State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 9th April 1985How does an arete form?
- 10th April 1985State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 11th April 1985Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 12th April 1985Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 13th April 1985Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 14th April 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.
- 15th April 1985What does GNI stand for?
- 16th April 1985A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 17th April 1985Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 18th April 1985State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 19th April 1985Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 20th April 1985Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 21st April 1985Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 22nd April 1985Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 23rd April 1985Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 24th April 1985Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 25th April 1985Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 26th April 1985Give 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.
- 27th April 1985Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 28th April 1985Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 29th April 1985A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 30th April 1985What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?