Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
August 1994 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1994
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1994Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 2nd August 1994Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 3rd August 1994What is a water transfer scheme?
- 4th August 1994State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 5th August 1994Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 6th August 1994What is a glacial trough?
- 7th August 1994In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 8th August 1994Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 9th August 1994Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 10th August 1994A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 11th August 1994On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 12th August 1994Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 13th August 1994Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 14th August 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.
- 15th August 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.
- 16th August 1994Define 'food miles'.
- 17th August 1994Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 18th August 1994A 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.
- 19th August 1994What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 20th August 1994Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 21st August 1994Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 22nd August 1994State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 23rd August 1994A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 24th August 1994State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 25th August 1994State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 26th August 1994Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 27th August 1994Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 28th August 1994Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 29th August 1994Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 30th August 1994Define 'water security'.
- 31st August 1994State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.