Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
December 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1990State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 2nd December 1990Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 3rd December 1990Define 'food miles'.
- 4th December 1990Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 5th December 1990Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 6th December 1990Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 7th December 1990Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 8th December 1990What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 9th December 1990What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 10th December 1990Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 11th December 1990Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 12th December 1990Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 13th December 1990In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 14th December 1990Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 15th December 1990Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 16th December 1990Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 17th December 1990State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 18th December 1990Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 19th December 1990What is a glacial trough?
- 20th December 1990In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 21st December 1990Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 22nd December 1990Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 23rd December 1990A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 24th December 1990On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 25th December 1990Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 26th December 1990Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 27th December 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.
- 28th December 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.
- 29th December 1990Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 30th December 1990Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 31st December 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.