Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
April 2014 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in April 2014, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in April 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2014Name one piece of evidence, other than ice cores, that scientists use to study past climate.
- 2nd April 2014Name one type of certification scheme that labels timber from sustainably managed forests.
- 3rd April 2014A pie chart shows land use split into farmland 60%, woodland 25% and urban 15%. Calculate the angle for the farmland sector.
- 4th April 2014On a triangular graph for employment structure, which corner would a country with almost all workers employed in farming be plotted closest to?
- 5th April 2014Give one example of a bottom-up development strategy.
- 6th April 2014Put these parts of a rainwater-harvesting system in the order water passes through them: storage tank, roof, filter, guttering.
- 7th April 2014Suggest 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.
- 8th April 2014A 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.
- 9th April 2014Define 'food miles'.
- 10th April 2014Give one reason why global water demand has risen due to population change.
- 11th April 2014A 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.
- 12th April 2014What is a corrie (or cirque)?
- 13th April 2014Name the two tectonic plates whose collision is responsible for earthquakes in the Nepal/Himalaya region.
- 14th April 2014Name the 2015 international agreement in which countries agreed to try to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C.
- 15th April 2014State one country where ecotourism has been used to help fund rainforest conservation.
- 16th April 2014A survey of 250 people found that 100 travel to work by car. Calculate the angle needed to show this on a pie chart.
- 17th April 2014State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 18th April 2014State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 19th April 2014Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 20th April 2014Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 21st April 2014Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 22nd April 2014Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 23rd April 2014Define 'water security'.
- 24th April 2014State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 25th April 2014How does an arete form?
- 26th April 2014State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 27th April 2014Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 28th April 2014Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 29th April 2014Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 30th April 2014In 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.