Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
May 2012 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in May 2012, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in May 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2012A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 2nd May 2012On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 3rd May 2012Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 4th May 2012Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 5th May 2012Suggest 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.
- 6th May 2012A 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.
- 7th May 2012Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 8th May 2012Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 9th May 2012A 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.
- 10th May 2012What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 11th May 2012Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 12th May 2012Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 13th May 2012State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 14th May 2012A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 15th May 2012State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 16th May 2012State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 17th May 2012Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 18th May 2012Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 19th May 2012Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 20th May 2012What is meant by 'resource security'?
- 21st May 2012Define 'water security'.
- 22nd May 2012State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 23rd May 2012How does an arete form?
- 24th May 2012State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 25th May 2012Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 26th May 2012Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 27th May 2012Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 28th May 2012In 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.
- 29th May 2012What does GNI stand for?
- 30th May 2012A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 31st May 2012Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.