Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 1997 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1997State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 2nd October 1997Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 3rd October 1997Define 'food miles'.
- 4th October 1997Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 5th October 1997Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 6th October 1997Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 7th October 1997Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 8th October 1997What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 9th October 1997What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 10th October 1997Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 11th October 1997Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 12th October 1997Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 13th October 1997In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 14th October 1997Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 15th October 1997Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 16th October 1997Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 17th October 1997State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 18th October 1997Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 19th October 1997What is a glacial trough?
- 20th October 1997In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 21st October 1997Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 22nd October 1997Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 23rd October 1997A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 24th October 1997On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 25th October 1997Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 26th October 1997Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 27th October 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.
- 28th October 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.
- 29th October 1997Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 30th October 1997Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 31st October 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.