Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
June 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1991Suggest 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.
- 2nd June 1991A 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.
- 3rd June 1991State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 4th June 1991Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 5th June 1991A 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.
- 6th June 1991What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 7th June 1991Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 8th June 1991Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 9th June 1991State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 10th June 1991A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 11th June 1991State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 12th June 1991State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 13th June 1991Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 14th June 1991Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 15th June 1991Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 16th June 1991What is a water transfer scheme?
- 17th June 1991Define 'water security'.
- 18th June 1991State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 19th June 1991How does an arete form?
- 20th June 1991State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 21st June 1991Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 22nd June 1991Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 23rd June 1991Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 24th June 1991In 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.
- 25th June 1991What does GNI stand for?
- 26th June 1991A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 27th June 1991Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 28th June 1991State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 29th June 1991Define 'food miles'.
- 30th June 1991Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.