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March 1996 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day

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March 1996

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 1996

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st March 1996State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
  2. 2nd March 1996Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  3. 3rd March 1996Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
  4. 4th March 1996Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
  5. 5th March 1996In 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.
  6. 6th March 1996What does GNI stand for?
  7. 7th March 1996A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
  8. 8th March 1996Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
  9. 9th March 1996State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
  10. 10th March 1996Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
  11. 11th March 1996Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
  12. 12th March 1996Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
  13. 13th March 1996Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
  14. 14th March 1996Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
  15. 15th March 1996Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
  16. 16th March 1996Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
  17. 17th March 1996Give one reason why a compound (divided) bar chart might be chosen over a simple bar chart when comparing rainfall from two different rain gauges each month.
  18. 18th March 1996Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
  19. 19th March 1996Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
  20. 20th March 1996A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
  21. 21st March 1996What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
  22. 22nd March 1996Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
  23. 23rd March 1996A supermarket can import strawberries flown a distance of 8,400 km, or buy strawberries grown 240 km away in the UK. Calculate how many times further the imported strawberries travel than the UK-grown ones.
  24. 24th March 1996State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
  25. 25th March 1996What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
  26. 26th March 1996Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
  27. 27th March 1996Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
  28. 28th March 1996Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
  29. 29th March 1996Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
  30. 30th March 1996State one reason why a pie chart, rather than a bar chart, is the better choice for showing how a household's monthly budget is divided between four spending categories.
  31. 31st March 1996On a radial graph comparing five services, a spoke with a small enclosed area close to the centre indicates what about that service?