Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1995 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1995Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 2nd January 1995Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 3rd January 1995In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 4th January 1995Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 5th January 1995Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 6th January 1995What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 7th January 1995State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 8th January 1995Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 9th January 1995What is a glacial trough?
- 10th January 1995In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 11th January 1995Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 12th January 1995Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 13th January 1995A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 14th January 1995On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 15th January 1995Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 16th January 1995Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 17th January 1995Suggest 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.
- 18th January 1995A 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.
- 19th January 1995Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 20th January 1995Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 21st January 1995A 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.
- 22nd January 1995What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 23rd January 1995Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 24th January 1995Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 25th January 1995State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 26th January 1995A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 27th January 1995State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 28th January 1995State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 29th January 1995Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 30th January 1995Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 31st January 1995Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.