Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1992 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1992
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1992Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 2nd January 1992What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 3rd January 1992What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 4th January 1992Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 5th January 1992Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 6th January 1992Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 7th January 1992In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 8th January 1992Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 9th January 1992Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 10th January 1992What is a water transfer scheme?
- 11th January 1992State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 12th January 1992Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 13th January 1992What is a glacial trough?
- 14th January 1992In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 15th January 1992Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 16th January 1992Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 17th January 1992A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 18th January 1992On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 19th January 1992Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 20th January 1992Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 21st January 1992Suggest 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.
- 22nd January 1992A 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.
- 23rd January 1992Define 'food miles'.
- 24th January 1992Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 25th January 1992A 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.
- 26th January 1992What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 27th January 1992Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 28th January 1992Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 29th January 1992State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 30th January 1992A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 31st January 1992State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.