Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 2008 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in January 2008, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in January 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2008State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 2nd January 2008Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 3rd January 2008Define 'food miles'.
- 4th January 2008Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 5th January 2008Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 6th January 2008Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 7th January 2008Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 8th January 2008What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 9th January 2008What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 10th January 2008Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 11th January 2008Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 12th January 2008Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 13th January 2008In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 14th January 2008Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 15th January 2008Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 16th January 2008Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 17th January 2008State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 18th January 2008Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 19th January 2008What is a glacial trough?
- 20th January 2008In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 21st January 2008Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 22nd January 2008Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 23rd January 2008A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 24th January 2008On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 25th January 2008Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 26th January 2008Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 27th January 2008Suggest 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.
- 28th January 2008A 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.
- 29th January 2008Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 30th January 2008Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 31st January 2008A 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.