Lesson Y8-U05-L06

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 does 'vulnerable' mean in climate change?

    • Only affected by changes in the sea and its tides
    • Able to resist any change without harm to people or places, even when disasters strike hard
    • Easily harmed and slow to recover when something bad happens
    • Always rich and protected by strong walls and defences

  2. What is exposure in climate change?

    • How many people live in a place and how fast the population grows
    • How much money a government spends on schools and hospitals each year
    • How much a place is in danger's way, like a low coast facing the sea
    • The height of the highest mountain nearby, measured above sea level

  3. What is adaptive capacity?

    • The number of trees growing in a city park and their size, height and the shade they give
    • How many children are born in a year across the whole region
    • The speed of a river in flood as it passes through the city
    • How well a place can cope, using money, technology and planning

  4. What is an impact in climate change?

    • A measure of GDP per person across a whole country each year
    • A change or effect that climate change causes for people or nature
    • A map showing rivers, roads and towns across a whole region
    • A type of rock formed by intense heat and pressure underground, which is found in many mountain ranges

  5. What does 'distribution' mean on a map?

    • Where things are found and spread out across a map or area
    • The date a river was first named by early settlers
    • The height of the highest mountain in a region, measured in metres
    • The number of people living in a city centre and its suburbs

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

    • Rising seas and storm surges reach it more easily
    • It is far from any sea, so it is never flooded at all
    • It has no rivers or rain at all during the whole year
    • It is always covered by snow for much of the winter months

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

    • A high mountain village in the Andes
    • A forest on a hilltop, far above the sea level
    • A low Pacific island such as Tuvalu
    • A high plateau far inland, away from any coast

  8. Why is Tuvalu highly exposed to climate change?

    • It lies deep inland in a desert, far from any ocean
    • It has no coastline at all, so there is no sea around it
    • Its land is low and the sea around it is rising
    • It has very high mountains that rise above the clouds each day

  9. Which is an example of a wealthy place building to cope with climate change?

    • Sea walls and flood defences
    • Cutting down all the coastal trees to make space for new roads
    • Building homes on unstable cliffs that are already crumbling
    • Removing all warning systems from the coast to save money

  10. Why does the Netherlands cope well even though much of it is low-lying?

    • It can fund huge flood defences from its wealth
    • Its land is above 3,000 metres high and very steep
    • It never receives any rain, so flooding never happens
    • It has no coastline at all, so it does not face the sea

  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. Farmers in a poor region cannot afford drought-resistant seeds. What does this show?

    • Low adaptive capacity
    • High exposure to the sea
    • High numbers of tourists
    • Deforestation of the land

  14. The Sahel is dry and farmers depend on rain. Which climate impact is most likely there?

    • Drought and failing crops
    • Snow covering the fields all year
    • Rising seas flooding inland towns
    • Storm surges flooding the coast

  15. Why is 'warming by about the same amount everywhere' not the same as 'everyone is affected equally'?

    • All places have identical geography and wealth, so they suffer equally
    • Warming only affects the Sahel and not any other region
    • Places differ in exposure and in their capacity to adapt
    • Warming does not change anything for people anywhere

  16. Which pair of places is most likely to be worse hit by climate change?

    • Two cool coastal towns with strong flood defences and early warnings
    • A wealthy German city and a cool Norwegian town near the fjords
    • A high Alpine village and a wealthy city in the valley
    • A low Pacific island and a dry farming region in the Sahel

  17. Where is climate risk usually highest for people?

    • Low-lying coasts and tropical areas
    • Mostly in the cold polar regions
    • Only in the middle of the ocean
    • Only in cities in northern Europe

  18. Bangladesh is hit harder than the Netherlands by climate change. What is the main reason?

    • The Netherlands has higher mountains than Bangladesh, which protect it
    • The Netherlands is exposed to more floods than Bangladesh each year
    • Bangladesh has no rivers at all, so there is little water to manage
    • Bangladesh is highly exposed and has less money to adapt

  19. Which judgement best weighs exposure against adaptive capacity?

    • Exposure never matters because wealth is all that counts in the end, so land and sea make no difference
    • Both matter: exposure sets the danger, and capacity decides how much harm results
    • Capacity never matters because the sea decides everything that happens
    • Neither matters because climate change is not real and no harm happens

  20. Why are children especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change?

    • They never live in affected regions
    • They are more vulnerable to heat and disease
    • They cause most of the world's emissions
    • They are immune to heat and disease

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