Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
November 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1987How does an arete form?
- 2nd November 1987State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 3rd November 1987Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 4th November 1987Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 5th November 1987Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 6th November 1987In 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.
- 7th November 1987What does GNI stand for?
- 8th November 1987A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 9th November 1987Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 10th November 1987State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 11th November 1987Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 12th November 1987Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 13th November 1987Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 14th November 1987Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 15th November 1987Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 16th November 1987Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 17th November 1987Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 18th November 1987Give 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.
- 19th November 1987Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 20th November 1987Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 21st November 1987A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 22nd November 1987What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 23rd November 1987Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 24th November 1987What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 25th November 1987State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 26th November 1987What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 27th November 1987Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
- 28th November 1987Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
- 29th November 1987Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
- 30th November 1987Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.