Lesson Y9-U03-L10

Responding to Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 15

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U03-L10, Responding to Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 15: Year 9: Weather, Climate and a Changing Atmosphere, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is the primary objective of climate change mitigation strategies?

    • Relocating cities
    • Growing drought crops
    • Building sea walls
    • Reducing emissions

  2. What does climate change adaptation involve?

    • Cutting carbon emissions
    • Reducing heat trapped
    • Stopping fossil fuels
    • Coping with impacts

  3. What aspect of climate change does mitigation target?

    • The impacts
    • The effects
    • The cause
    • The symptoms

  4. Which of these is an example of climate adaptation?

    • Planting trees
    • Solar farms
    • Wind turbines
    • Building sea walls

  5. Which of these is an example of climate mitigation?

    • Flood barriers
    • Sea walls
    • Solar farms
    • Irrigation canals

  6. Why do the positive impacts of carbon mitigation take decades to become visible?

    • Oceans absorb heat
    • Gases persist long-term
    • Trees grow slowly
    • Solar cycles are fast

  7. What is the definition of renewable energy?

    • Energy sources replenishing
    • Nuclear waste storage
    • Coal supplies ending
    • Fossil fuels burning

  8. What is the function of carbon capture technology?

    • Absorbing solar rays
    • Cooling sea temperatures
    • Creating fossil fuels
    • Trapping carbon emissions

  9. Which mitigation strategy is cheapest per tonne of carbon cut?

    • Solar power
    • Carbon capture
    • Nuclear energy
    • Tree planting

  10. Carbon capture costs about 120 pounds per tonne and tree planting about 15 pounds. How many times more does carbon capture cost?

    • About 80 times.
    • About 8 times.
    • About 2 times.
    • About 15 times.

  11. How does planting trees help combat climate change?

    • Absorbing carbon dioxide
    • Cooling ocean currents
    • Reflecting sunlight away
    • Blocking UV rays

  12. Which is a correct logical chain for wind power?

    • Less coal burned
    • More methane released
    • Higher sea walls
    • Increased oil drilling

  13. Why is building a sea wall classified as adaptation?

    • Cuts carbon output
    • Removes greenhouse gases
    • Copes with floods
    • Stops fossil fuels

  14. Which pair correctly matches a strategy to its type?

    • Drought crops mitigation
    • Solar farms adaptation
    • Electric cars mitigation
    • Sea walls mitigation

  15. What is wrong with claiming sea walls tackle the cause?

    • They only cope
    • They emit carbon
    • They trap sunlight
    • They warm oceans

  16. Why do vulnerable countries need a combination of both mitigation and adaptation?

    • Stop all storms
    • Halt tectonic activity
    • Cool the oceans instantly
    • Cope and slow warming

  17. What is a major limitation of climate change adaptation?

    • It stops warming
    • It reduces gases
    • It cools oceans
    • It is costly

  18. Why do the benefits of climate mitigation take a long time to appear?

    • Energy is cheap
    • Existing gases remain
    • Trees grow slowly
    • Oceans freeze fast

  19. Which strategy tackles the root cause of global climate change by reducing emissions?

    • Adaptation
    • Conservation
    • Migration
    • Mitigation

  20. Why can a country not rely on adaptation alone to manage climate change?

    • Warming keeps growing
    • Temperatures drop rapidly
    • Adaptation stops emissions
    • Impacts immediately cease

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