Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
October 2008 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in October 2008, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in October 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2008Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 2nd October 2008A 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.
- 3rd October 2008Define 'water security'.
- 4th October 2008State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 5th October 2008How does an arete form?
- 6th October 2008State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 7th October 2008Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 8th October 2008Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 9th October 2008Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 10th October 2008In 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.
- 11th October 2008What does GNI stand for?
- 12th October 2008A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 13th October 2008Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 14th October 2008State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 15th October 2008State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 16th October 2008Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 17th October 2008Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 18th October 2008Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 19th October 2008Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 20th October 2008Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 21st October 2008Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 22nd October 2008Give 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.
- 23rd October 2008Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 24th October 2008Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 25th October 2008A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 26th October 2008What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 27th October 2008Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 28th October 2008What is a water transfer scheme?
- 29th October 2008State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 30th October 2008What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 31st October 2008Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.