Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
August 1999 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1999State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 2nd August 1999Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 3rd August 1999Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 4th August 1999Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 5th August 1999In 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.
- 6th August 1999What does GNI stand for?
- 7th August 1999A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 8th August 1999Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 9th August 1999State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 10th August 1999Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 11th August 1999Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 12th August 1999Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 13th August 1999Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 14th August 1999Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 15th August 1999Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 16th August 1999Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 17th August 1999Give 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.
- 18th August 1999Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 19th August 1999Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 20th August 1999A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 21st August 1999What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 22nd August 1999Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 23rd August 1999A 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.
- 24th August 1999State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 25th August 1999What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 26th August 1999Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.
- 27th August 1999Give one reason why the avalanche triggered on Everest by the 2015 earthquake was particularly significant.
- 28th August 1999Name one greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
- 29th August 1999Give one limitation of relying only on international agreements to stop illegal logging.
- 30th August 1999State one reason why a pie chart, rather than a bar chart, is the better choice for showing how a household's monthly budget is divided between four spending categories.
- 31st August 1999On a radial graph comparing five services, a spoke with a small enclosed area close to the centre indicates what about that service?