Lesson Y8-U05-L06

Unequal Impacts: A Warming World Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 11

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U05-L06, Unequal Impacts: A Warming World: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 11: Year 8: Climate Change: Evidence and Choices, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes a place or group easily harmed by climate hazards?

    • Immune
    • Protected
    • Vulnerable
    • Resilient

  2. What term describes how much a place sits in the path of a hazard?

    • Adaptation
    • Mitigation
    • Exposure
    • Development

  3. What term describes how well a place can cope with climate change using money?

    • Natural hazard
    • Carbon footprint
    • Climatic shift
    • Adaptive capacity

  4. What term describes any effect that climate change causes for people or nature?

    • Variable
    • Impact
    • Proxy
    • Forecast

  5. What geographical term describes where things are found and spread across a map?

    • Distribution
    • Projection
    • Navigation
    • Elevation

  6. Why is a low coastal area highly exposed to climate change?

    • Rising seas
    • Mountain ranges
    • Heavy snowfall
    • High altitude

  7. Which low-lying place is highly exposed to rising sea levels?

    • Switzerland
    • Sahara
    • Tuvalu
    • Nepal

  8. Why is Tuvalu directly threatened by climate change?

    • Cold climate
    • Inland location
    • Low land
    • High mountains

  9. Which engineering strategy do wealthy places use to cope with rising seas?

    • Sea walls
    • Ice sheets
    • Tectonic plates
    • Volcanic vents

  10. Why does the Netherlands cope well despite being low-lying?

    • High wealth
    • Arid climate
    • Small population
    • High altitude

  11. Which of these four countries has the highest GDP per person?

    • Japan
    • Netherlands
    • Chad
    • Bangladesh

  12. Which of these four countries has the lowest GDP per person?

    • Bangladesh
    • Japan
    • Chad
    • Netherlands

  13. What term describes a region lacking the financial resources to cope with climate shocks?

    • Low adaptive capacity
    • High exposure
    • Climatic vulnerability
    • Carbon neutrality

  14. Which climate hazard threatens dry farming regions like the Sahel most?

    • Drought
    • Sea-level rise
    • Permafrost thaw
    • Glacial retreat

  15. Which two key factors determine how severely climate change harms a location?

    • Altitude and latitude
    • Weather and climate
    • Exposure and capacity
    • Wealth and size

  16. Which two global regions face the highest severe risks from climate change?

    • Urban and industrial
    • Tundra and mountains
    • Deserts and forests
    • Low islands and Sahel

  17. Which global zones experience the highest overall human climate risk?

    • High mountain peaks
    • Low coasts and tropics
    • Polar ice caps
    • Temperate grasslands

  18. Why is Bangladesh hit harder by floods than the Netherlands?

    • Warmer sea currents
    • More heavy snowfall
    • Higher mountain ranges
    • Lower adaptation funds

  19. What term describes a population's ability to withstand climate hazards?

    • Natural hazard
    • Adaptive capacity
    • Exposure level
    • Carbon footprint

  20. Which group is especially vulnerable to heat stress and waterborne diseases?

    • Wealthy residents
    • Young children
    • Healthy adults
    • Office workers

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