Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 2000 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2000Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 2nd October 2000Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 3rd October 2000Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 4th October 2000What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 5th October 2000What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 6th October 2000Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 7th October 2000Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 8th October 2000Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 9th October 2000In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 10th October 2000Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 11th October 2000Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 12th October 2000A 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.
- 13th October 2000State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 14th October 2000Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 15th October 2000What is a glacial trough?
- 16th October 2000In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 17th October 2000Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 18th October 2000Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 19th October 2000A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 20th October 2000On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 21st October 2000Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 22nd October 2000Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 23rd October 2000Suggest 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.
- 24th October 2000A 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.
- 25th October 2000State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 26th October 2000Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 27th October 2000A 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.
- 28th October 2000What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 29th October 2000Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 30th October 2000Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 31st October 2000State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.