Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 1997 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1997Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 2nd January 1997Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 3rd January 1997What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 4th January 1997Define 'water security'.
- 5th January 1997State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 6th January 1997How does an arete form?
- 7th January 1997State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 8th January 1997Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 9th January 1997Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 10th January 1997Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 11th January 1997In 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.
- 12th January 1997What does GNI stand for?
- 13th January 1997A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 14th January 1997Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 15th January 1997State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 16th January 1997Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 17th January 1997Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 18th January 1997Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 19th January 1997Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 20th January 1997Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 21st January 1997Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 22nd January 1997Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 23rd January 1997Give 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.
- 24th January 1997Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 25th January 1997Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 26th January 1997A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 27th January 1997What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 28th January 1997Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 29th January 1997A 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.
- 30th January 1997State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 31st January 1997What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?