Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
May 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1990Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 2nd May 1990Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 3rd May 1990A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 4th May 1990On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 5th May 1990Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 6th May 1990Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 7th May 1990Suggest 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.
- 8th May 1990A 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.
- 9th May 1990Define 'food miles'.
- 10th May 1990Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 11th May 1990A 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.
- 12th May 1990What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 13th May 1990Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 14th May 1990Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 15th May 1990State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 16th May 1990A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 17th May 1990State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 18th May 1990State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 19th May 1990Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 20th May 1990Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 21st May 1990Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 22nd May 1990Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 23rd May 1990Define 'water security'.
- 24th May 1990State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 25th May 1990How does an arete form?
- 26th May 1990State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 27th May 1990Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 28th May 1990Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 29th May 1990Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 30th May 1990In 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.
- 31st May 1990What does GNI stand for?