Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
September 1998 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1998On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 2nd September 1998Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 3rd September 1998Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 4th September 1998Suggest 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.
- 5th September 1998A 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.
- 6th September 1998Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 7th September 1998Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 8th September 1998A 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.
- 9th September 1998What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 10th September 1998Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 11th September 1998Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 12th September 1998State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 13th September 1998A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 14th September 1998State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 15th September 1998State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 16th September 1998Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 17th September 1998Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 18th September 1998Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 19th September 1998What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 20th September 1998Define 'water security'.
- 21st September 1998State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 22nd September 1998How does an arete form?
- 23rd September 1998State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 24th September 1998Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 25th September 1998Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 26th September 1998Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 27th September 1998In 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.
- 28th September 1998What does GNI stand for?
- 29th September 1998A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 30th September 1998Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.