Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
November 2003 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in November 2003, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in November 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2003Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 2nd November 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.
- 3rd November 2003Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 4th November 2003What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 5th November 2003Define 'water security'.
- 6th November 2003State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 7th November 2003How does an arete form?
- 8th November 2003State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 9th November 2003Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 10th November 2003Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 11th November 2003Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 12th November 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.
- 13th November 2003What does GNI stand for?
- 14th November 2003A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 15th November 2003Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 16th November 2003State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 17th November 2003Give one difference between agribusiness and organic farming.
- 18th November 2003Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 19th November 2003Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 20th November 2003Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 21st November 2003Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 22nd November 2003Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 23rd November 2003Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 24th November 2003Give 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.
- 25th November 2003Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 26th November 2003Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 27th November 2003A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 28th November 2003What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 29th November 2003Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 30th November 2003A 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.