Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
May 1994 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1994
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1994A 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.
- 2nd May 1994State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 3rd May 1994Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 4th May 1994Define 'food miles'.
- 5th May 1994Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 6th May 1994Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 7th May 1994Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 8th May 1994Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 9th May 1994What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 10th May 1994What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 11th May 1994Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 12th May 1994Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 13th May 1994Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 14th May 1994In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 15th May 1994Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 16th May 1994Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 17th May 1994Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 18th May 1994State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 19th May 1994Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 20th May 1994What is a glacial trough?
- 21st May 1994In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 22nd May 1994Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 23rd May 1994Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 24th May 1994A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 25th May 1994On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 26th May 1994Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 27th May 1994Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 28th May 1994Suggest 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.
- 29th May 1994A 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.
- 30th May 1994Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 31st May 1994Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.