Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
March 2001 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2001A storage tank collects water from a roof with an area of 40 square metres. In a storm, 10mm of rain falls and the system captures 90 percent of it. Calculate the volume collected, in litres.
- 2nd March 2001State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 3rd March 2001Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 4th March 2001Define 'food miles'.
- 5th March 2001Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 6th March 2001Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 7th March 2001Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 8th March 2001Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 9th March 2001What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 10th March 2001What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 11th March 2001Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 12th March 2001Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 13th March 2001Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 14th March 2001In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 15th March 2001Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 16th March 2001Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 17th March 2001Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 18th March 2001State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 19th March 2001Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 20th March 2001What is a glacial trough?
- 21st March 2001In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 22nd March 2001Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 23rd March 2001Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 24th March 2001A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 25th March 2001On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 26th March 2001Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 27th March 2001Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 28th March 2001Suggest 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.
- 29th March 2001A 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.
- 30th March 2001Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 31st March 2001Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.