Daily Practice · GCSE Geography
February 2017 - GCSE Geography 5-a-day
Every GCSE Geography sheet published in February 2017, with answers. Physical processes, human patterns, case-study detail and fieldwork technique.
Every sheet in February 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2017State one advantage of siting a large windfarm on open moorland rather than close to a city.
- 2nd February 2017How does an arete form?
- 3rd February 2017State one reason why rural mountain communities in Nepal received aid more slowly than people in Kathmandu.
- 4th February 2017Is building a sea wall to cope with rising sea levels an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 5th February 2017Give one way a debt-for-nature swap helps protect rainforest.
- 6th February 2017Which type of chart is most suitable for comparing the number of shops in five different town centres?
- 7th February 2017In 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.
- 8th February 2017What does GNI stand for?
- 9th February 2017A farmer switches from flooding a field to drip irrigation. Give one reason this reduces the amount of water needed.
- 10th February 2017Name one urban farming technique, other than a sack garden, that could be used to grow food in a small space in a city.
- 11th February 2017State one transport strategy, other than cycling, that can reduce car use in a city centre.
- 12th February 2017Define 'food miles'.
- 13th February 2017Give one physical factor that can cause a region to have low water availability.
- 14th February 2017Give one type of previous land use on the site where Whitelee Windfarm was built.
- 15th February 2017Name the process by which rock fragments carried within ice scrape and grind against the bedrock.
- 16th February 2017Suggest one reason why revised building codes introduced after the earthquake might take a long time to reduce risk across the whole country.
- 17th February 2017Is planting a forest to absorb carbon dioxide an example of mitigation or adaptation?
- 18th February 2017Why might selective logging with replanting be more sustainable than clear-felling?
- 19th February 2017Give 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.
- 20th February 2017Two countries plot at exactly the same point on a triangular graph of employment structure. State what this tells you about their economies.
- 21st February 2017Name the three components combined in the Human Development Index (HDI).
- 22nd February 2017A community wants a water technology that villagers can repair themselves using local tools and materials. Which term describes this kind of technology?
- 23rd February 2017What is the term for growing food within a city or town, rather than in the surrounding countryside?
- 24th February 2017Name one European district that is used as an example of sustainable urban design.
- 25th February 2017Name the power station whose closure in 2024 ended coal-fired electricity generation in Great Britain.
- 26th February 2017State one way industrial growth increases a country's water demand.
- 27th February 2017What term describes the maximum electrical power a windfarm could generate if every turbine ran at full output at the same time?
- 28th February 2017Name the process by which meltwater refreezes around rock and moving ice pulls the loosened blocks away.