Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
April 1999 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1999Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 2nd April 1999Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 3rd April 1999Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 4th April 1999Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 5th April 1999Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 6th April 1999Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 7th April 1999What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 8th April 1999What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 9th April 1999Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 10th April 1999Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 11th April 1999Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 12th April 1999In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 13th April 1999Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 14th April 1999Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 15th April 1999What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 16th April 1999State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 17th April 1999Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 18th April 1999What is a glacial trough?
- 19th April 1999In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 20th April 1999Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 21st April 1999Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 22nd April 1999A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 23rd April 1999On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 24th April 1999Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 25th April 1999Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 26th April 1999Suggest 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.
- 27th April 1999A 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.
- 28th April 1999Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 29th April 1999Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 30th April 1999A 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.