Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
March 2003 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in March 2003, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in March 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2003A 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.
- 2nd March 2003Define 'food miles'.
- 3rd March 2003Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 4th March 2003A 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.
- 5th March 2003What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 6th March 2003Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 7th March 2003Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 8th March 2003State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 9th March 2003A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 10th March 2003State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 11th March 2003State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 12th March 2003Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 13th March 2003Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 14th March 2003Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 15th March 2003Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 16th March 2003Define 'water security'.
- 17th March 2003State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 18th March 2003How does an arete form?
- 19th March 2003State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 20th March 2003Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 21st March 2003Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 22nd March 2003Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 23rd March 2003In 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.
- 24th March 2003What does GNI stand for?
- 25th March 2003A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 26th March 2003Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 27th March 2003State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 28th March 2003Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 29th March 2003Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 30th March 2003Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 31st March 2003Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.