Lesson Y8-U05-L09

Y8-U05-L09 Adaptation: Living with a Changed Climate Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 11

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U05-L09, Adaptation: Living with a Changed Climate: 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 is hard engineering as a flood defence?

    • Large built defences made of concrete or steel, like a sea wall
    • Working with nature by restoring marshes along the coast
    • Planting trees to soak up carbon dioxide in the uplands
    • Planned moving of people away from a risky area by the council

  2. What is soft engineering as a flood defence?

    • Working with nature to reduce harm, like restoring a saltmarsh
    • Building a tall concrete barrier across a river valley
    • Moving whole towns inland by law, with new homes built elsewhere
    • Burning coal to power sea pumps that remove water from the land

  3. What is managed retreat?

    • A military withdrawal from a coastline after a long campaign
    • A quick retreat of the sea during a storm, which pulls back from the coast and then returns with the tide
    • A fall in demand for houses in a city after a flood
    • Planned moving of people and buildings away from a risky area

  4. What is resilience?

    • The number of people living in a flood zone and their ages
    • The strength of steel used in building a sea wall and barrier, tested by engineers before each storm season
    • The speed of a river during a flood as it rushes past houses
    • How well a place or community can cope with and recover from an impact

  5. What is adaptation?

    • A tax on burning coal in power stations across the country
    • A way to stop all rainfall from falling on the land below
    • Action that helps people cope with climate change impacts already happening
    • Action that cuts greenhouse gases at source in power stations, car exhausts and factories across every region

  6. Is a concrete sea wall hard or soft engineering?

    • Managed retreat
    • Soft engineering
    • Hard engineering
    • Mitigation

  7. Is restoring a saltmarsh hard or soft engineering?

    • Managed retreat only
    • Soft engineering
    • A form of renewable energy
    • Hard engineering

  8. Moving a village inland away from the coast is an example of which approach?

    • Hard engineering
    • Managed retreat
    • A carbon sink
    • Soft engineering

  9. What does the Thames Barrier do?

    • It pumps coal smoke out of London into the air above
    • It stops all rain from falling on London in the winter
    • It moves the River Thames into another valley to the east
    • It rises to hold back high tides and storm surges

  10. What type of defence is the Thames Barrier?

    • Hard engineering, a large built mechanical defence
    • Mitigation, cutting emissions from power stations and cars
    • Managed retreat, moving people away from the river
    • Soft engineering, working with nature along the banks

  11. Which is a water adaptation to more droughts?

    • Building reservoirs and recycling water
    • Removing all water storage from towns and cities
    • Letting every tap run freely across the whole day
    • Burning waste water in open pits near farms

  12. Which is an example of adaptation in farming?

    • Planting only crops that need the most water in dry areas
    • Growing drought-resistant crops
    • Clearing all trees to plant more fields for crops
    • Stopping all irrigation in dry areas to save water

  13. Why do some Kenyan farmers plant drought-resistant maize?

    • It survives longer dry spells
    • It needs more rain than other crops to grow well
    • It produces no food at all, so farmers grow it for fun
    • It grows only in flood water in the wetlands

  14. How do early-warning systems help people adapt to climate change?

    • They stop floods from happening at all in the valley
    • They help people prepare before a flood or heatwave
    • They make the weather hotter in the summer months
    • They replace all sea walls and barriers across the coast

  15. Which is a sensible adaptation for a town facing rising seas?

    • A concrete sea wall or a restored saltmarsh
    • Burning more coal to fund a pump that removes the water
    • Removing all flood warnings from the local area this year
    • Building new homes on the lowest beach, close to the waves

  16. A sea wall is strong but expensive and can harm beaches and wildlife. Which statement is fair?

    • It gives strong protection but has costs and effects on nature
    • It only works on rivers and never on the open coast
    • It is cheap and gives no protection at all against waves
    • It has no costs and no effects at all on beaches, wildlife or local people, and it is always cheap to build

  17. Why might a saltmarsh be chosen over a sea wall?

    • It protects more than any wall can against the strongest waves
    • It costs more and harms wildlife in the local area
    • It cannot absorb any wave energy at all during storms
    • It is cheaper and helps nature, though it protects less

  18. Why can managed retreat be the best choice for some low land?

    • It stops the sea from rising by moving the coastline inland
    • Defending some low land costs more than moving people to safety
    • It never affects people's homes, so nobody has to move
    • It is always the cheapest option everywhere in the country, whatever the local land and population are like

  19. Which judgement best evaluates adaptation choices?

    • The best choice depends on cost, protection, effects on nature and fairness to people
    • Only one option should ever be considered, even when others are cheaper
    • Adaptation is never needed if emissions fall, so nothing else is required
    • The most expensive defence is always the best, whatever it costs the public and whatever it does to nature and homes

  20. Why is adaptation vital even if emissions are cut now?

    • Adaptation is only needed in places with no sea at all
    • Some warming is already locked in, so impacts will continue for decades
    • Emission cuts cause immediate cooling of the air within a week
    • Warming stops as soon as emissions stop, so nothing more happens to the climate or to the people living in it

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