Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 1993 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1993Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 2nd October 1993A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 3rd October 1993On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 4th October 1993Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 5th October 1993Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 6th October 1993Suggest 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.
- 7th October 1993A 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.
- 8th October 1993Define 'food miles'.
- 9th October 1993Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 10th October 1993A 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.
- 11th October 1993What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 12th October 1993Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 13th October 1993Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 14th October 1993State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 15th October 1993A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 16th October 1993State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 17th October 1993State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 18th October 1993Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 19th October 1993Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 20th October 1993Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 21st October 1993Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 22nd October 1993Define 'water security'.
- 23rd October 1993State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 24th October 1993How does an arete form?
- 25th October 1993State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 26th October 1993Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 27th October 1993Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 28th October 1993Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 29th October 1993In 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.
- 30th October 1993What does GNI stand for?
- 31st October 1993A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.