Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1989Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 2nd January 1989Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 3rd January 1989Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 4th January 1989Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 5th January 1989What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 6th January 1989What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 7th January 1989Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 8th January 1989Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 9th January 1989Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 10th January 1989In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 11th January 1989Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 12th January 1989Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 13th January 1989What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 14th January 1989State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 15th January 1989Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 16th January 1989What is a glacial trough?
- 17th January 1989In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 18th January 1989Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 19th January 1989Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 20th January 1989A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 21st January 1989On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 22nd January 1989Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 23rd January 1989Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 24th January 1989Suggest 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.
- 25th January 1989A 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.
- 26th January 1989Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 27th January 1989Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 28th January 1989A 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.
- 29th January 1989What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 30th January 1989Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 31st January 1989Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.