Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
July 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1986Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 2nd July 1986Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 3rd July 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.
- 4th July 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.
- 5th July 1986Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 6th July 1986Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 7th July 1986A 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 July 1986What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 9th July 1986Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 10th July 1986Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 11th July 1986State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 12th July 1986A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 13th July 1986State 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 July 1986State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 15th July 1986Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 16th July 1986Give 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 July 1986Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 18th July 1986A 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.
- 19th July 1986Define 'water security'.
- 20th July 1986State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 21st July 1986How does an arete form?
- 22nd July 1986State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 23rd July 1986Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 24th July 1986Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 25th July 1986Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 26th July 1986In 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 July 1986What does GNI stand for?
- 28th July 1986A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 29th July 1986Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 30th July 1986State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 31st July 1986State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.