Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
April 1995 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1995A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 2nd April 1995On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 3rd April 1995Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 4th April 1995Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 5th April 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.
- 6th April 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.
- 7th April 1995Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 8th April 1995Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 9th April 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.
- 10th April 1995What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 11th April 1995Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 12th April 1995Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 13th April 1995State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 14th April 1995A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 15th April 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.
- 16th April 1995State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 17th April 1995Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 18th April 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.
- 19th April 1995Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 20th April 1995What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 21st April 1995Define 'water security'.
- 22nd April 1995State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 23rd April 1995How does an arete form?
- 24th April 1995State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 25th April 1995Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 26th April 1995Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 27th April 1995Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 28th April 1995In 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.
- 29th April 1995What does GNI stand for?
- 30th April 1995A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.