Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1988A 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.
- 2nd January 1988State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 3rd January 1988Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 4th January 1988A 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.
- 5th January 1988What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 6th January 1988Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 7th January 1988Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 8th January 1988State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 9th January 1988A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 10th January 1988State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 11th January 1988State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 12th January 1988Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 13th January 1988Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 14th January 1988Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 15th January 1988What is a water transfer scheme?
- 16th January 1988Define 'water security'.
- 17th January 1988State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 18th January 1988How does an arete form?
- 19th January 1988State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 20th January 1988Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 21st January 1988Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 22nd January 1988Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 23rd January 1988In 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.
- 24th January 1988What does GNI stand for?
- 25th January 1988A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 26th January 1988Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 27th January 1988State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 28th January 1988Define 'food miles'.
- 29th January 1988Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 30th January 1988Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 31st January 1988Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.