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June 2011 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in June 2011, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in June 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2011A 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 June 2011State one crop type that grows well in a sack garden because it grows quickly and does not need deep roots.
- 3rd June 2011Explain one way that green roofs can reduce a building's energy use.
- 4th June 2011Define 'food miles'.
- 5th June 2011Give one reason a shared, transboundary river can create uncertainty over water supply for a downstream country.
- 6th June 2011Explain why battery storage or backup power stations are needed alongside a windfarm like Whitelee.
- 7th June 2011Why do hanging valleys often have waterfalls where they meet the main glacial trough?
- 8th June 2011Give one reason why many Nepali homeowners could not rely on insurance payouts to help rebuild, unlike homeowners in some wealthier countries.
- 9th June 2011What term describes the natural process that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life?
- 10th June 2011What does 'sustainable management' of a rainforest mean?
- 11th June 2011Which type of graph is most suitable for showing how a river's discharge changes hour by hour during a flood?
- 12th June 2011Name the general shape of a population pyramid for a country with roughly similar numbers of people in each age group.
- 13th June 2011Give one social measure of development, other than life expectancy.
- 14th June 2011In which country is Kitui County, the location of a well-known community rainwater-harvesting project, found?
- 15th June 2011Calculate the monthly vegetable output of 15 sack gardens if each produces 3.5 kg per month.
- 16th June 2011Define 'urban sustainability'.
- 17th June 2011Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 18th June 2011State one human factor that can reduce the amount of usable fresh water in a river.
- 19th June 2011Name the country within the UK where Whitelee Windfarm is located.
- 20th June 2011What is a glacial trough?
- 21st June 2011In which mountain range does Nepal lie, making it prone to earthquakes?
- 22nd June 2011Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 23rd June 2011Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 24th June 2011A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 25th June 2011On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 26th June 2011Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 27th June 2011Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 28th June 2011Suggest 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 June 2011A 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 June 2011Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.