Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
March 1997 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1997Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 2nd March 1997Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 3rd March 1997A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 4th March 1997On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 5th March 1997Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 6th March 1997Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 7th March 1997Suggest 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.
- 8th March 1997A 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.
- 9th March 1997Define 'food miles'.
- 10th March 1997Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 11th March 1997A 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.
- 12th March 1997What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 13th March 1997Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 14th March 1997Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 15th March 1997State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 16th March 1997A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 17th March 1997State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 18th March 1997State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 19th March 1997Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 20th March 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.
- 21st March 1997Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 22nd March 1997Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 23rd March 1997Define 'water security'.
- 24th March 1997State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 25th March 1997How does an arete form?
- 26th March 1997State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 27th March 1997Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 28th March 1997Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 29th March 1997Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 30th March 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.
- 31st March 1997What does GNI stand for?