Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
July 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1990Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 2nd July 1990Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 3rd July 1990Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 4th July 1990Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 5th July 1990What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 6th July 1990What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 7th July 1990Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 8th July 1990Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 9th July 1990Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 10th July 1990In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 11th July 1990Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 12th July 1990Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 13th July 1990A supermarket can import strawberries flown a distance of 8,400 km, or buy strawberries grown 240 km away in the UK. Calculate how many times further the imported strawberries travel than the UK-grown ones.
- 14th July 1990State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 15th July 1990Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 16th July 1990What is a glacial trough?
- 17th July 1990In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 18th July 1990Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 19th July 1990Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 20th July 1990A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 21st July 1990On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 22nd July 1990Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 23rd July 1990Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 24th July 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.
- 25th July 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.
- 26th July 1990State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 27th July 1990Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 28th July 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.
- 29th July 1990What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 30th July 1990Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 31st July 1990Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.