Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
December 2011 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in December 2011, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in December 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 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.
- 2nd December 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.
- 3rd December 2011State whether the north and west of the UK, or the south and east, has the larger water surplus, and give one reason why.
- 4th December 2011Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 5th December 2011A 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.
- 6th December 2011What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 7th December 2011Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 8th December 2011Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 9th December 2011State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 10th December 2011A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 11th December 2011State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 12th December 2011State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 13th December 2011Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 14th December 2011Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 15th December 2011Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 16th December 2011What is a water transfer scheme?
- 17th December 2011Define 'water security'.
- 18th December 2011State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 19th December 2011How does an arete form?
- 20th December 2011State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 21st December 2011Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 22nd December 2011Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 23rd December 2011Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 24th December 2011In 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.
- 25th December 2011What does GNI stand for?
- 26th December 2011A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 27th December 2011Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 28th December 2011State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 29th December 2011Define 'food miles'.
- 30th December 2011Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 31st December 2011Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.