Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1986A 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.
- 2nd January 1986State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 3rd January 1986Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 4th January 1986State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 5th January 1986Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 6th January 1986Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 7th January 1986Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 8th January 1986Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 9th January 1986What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 10th January 1986What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 11th January 1986Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 12th January 1986Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 13th January 1986Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 14th January 1986In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 15th January 1986Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 16th January 1986Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 17th January 1986What is a water transfer scheme?
- 18th January 1986State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 19th January 1986Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 20th January 1986What is a glacial trough?
- 21st January 1986In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 22nd January 1986Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 23rd January 1986Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 24th January 1986A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 25th January 1986On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 26th January 1986Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 27th January 1986Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 28th January 1986Suggest 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.
- 29th January 1986A 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.
- 30th January 1986Define 'food miles'.
- 31st January 1986Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.