Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
May 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1991Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
- 2nd May 1991State one reason why a pie chart, rather than a bar chart, is the better choice for showing how a household's monthly budget is divided between four spending categories.
- 3rd May 1991On a radial graph comparing five services, a spoke with a small enclosed area close to the centre indicates what about that service?
- 4th May 1991What name is given to aid provided immediately after a disaster to meet urgent needs such as food and shelter?
- 5th May 1991A storage tank collects water from a roof with an area of 40 square metres. In a storm, 10mm of rain falls and the system captures 90 percent of it. Calculate the volume collected, in litres.
- 6th May 1991State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 7th May 1991Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 8th May 1991Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 9th May 1991Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 10th May 1991Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 11th May 1991Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 12th May 1991Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 13th May 1991What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 14th May 1991What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 15th May 1991Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 16th May 1991Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 17th May 1991Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 18th May 1991In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 19th May 1991Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 20th May 1991Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 21st May 1991A 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.
- 22nd May 1991State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 23rd May 1991Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 24th May 1991What is a glacial trough?
- 25th May 1991In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 26th May 1991Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 27th May 1991Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 28th May 1991A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 29th May 1991On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 30th May 1991Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 31st May 1991Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.