Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
January 2016 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in January 2016, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in January 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2016State whether a population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider top is more likely to show a youthful population or an ageing population.
- 2nd January 2016State one physical factor that can restrict a country's development.
- 3rd January 2016Give one part of a hand pump that needs regular maintenance.
- 4th January 2016Give one way that urban farming projects like sack gardens can improve a household's diet, other than increasing the total amount of food available.
- 5th January 2016Give one household-level strategy for reducing water use in a sustainable city.
- 6th January 2016Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 7th January 2016Define 'water security'.
- 8th January 2016State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 9th January 2016How does an arete form?
- 10th January 2016State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 11th January 2016Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 12th January 2016Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 13th January 2016Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 14th January 2016In 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.
- 15th January 2016What does GNI stand for?
- 16th January 2016A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 17th January 2016Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 18th January 2016State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 19th January 2016Give one reason, other than population growth, why global demand for resources such as energy has increased in recent decades.
- 20th January 2016Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 21st January 2016Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 22nd January 2016Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 23rd January 2016Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 24th January 2016Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 25th January 2016Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 26th January 2016Give 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.
- 27th January 2016Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 28th January 2016Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 29th January 2016A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 30th January 2016What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 31st January 2016Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.