Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1987Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 2nd October 1987Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 3rd October 1987What is a water transfer scheme?
- 4th October 1987State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 5th October 1987Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 6th October 1987What is a glacial trough?
- 7th October 1987In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 8th October 1987Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 9th October 1987Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 10th October 1987A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 11th October 1987On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 12th October 1987Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 13th October 1987Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 14th October 1987Suggest 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.
- 15th October 1987A 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.
- 16th October 1987Define 'food miles'.
- 17th October 1987Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 18th October 1987A 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.
- 19th October 1987What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 20th October 1987Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 21st October 1987Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 22nd October 1987State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 23rd October 1987A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 24th October 1987State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 25th October 1987State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 26th October 1987Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 27th October 1987Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 28th October 1987Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 29th October 1987Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 30th October 1987Define 'water security'.
- 31st October 1987State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.