Lesson Y8-U05-L10

Y8-U05-L10 What Should We Do? A Climate Decision Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 11

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U05-L10, What Should We Do? A Climate Decision: 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 a stakeholder?

    • A gas that traps heat in the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide and methane
    • A person or group affected by a decision, or able to influence it
    • A tax paid on imported goods arriving at the port each week
    • A type of rock formed by intense heat and pressure in the Earth

  2. What does 'responsibility' mean in a climate decision?

    • A graph showing population over time for a whole country
    • A type of cloud that brings heavy rain to the mountains each year
    • A duty to act because of who you are or what you have caused
    • A measure of how cold a region is during the winter months

  3. What does 'equity' mean?

    • Equal height for every building in a city centre and its suburbs
    • A measure of rainfall each year across the whole region
    • Fairness, taking different situations into account
    • The number of votes needed to pass a law in parliament

  4. What does it mean to 'justify' a decision?

    • Remove all evidence before making a choice, so it is fair
    • Agree with the majority without thinking about the evidence or checking the facts for yourself
    • Give clear reasons and evidence to support a decision or view
    • Guess an answer without checking any of the facts or data

  5. What are emissions in climate change?

    • Greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, released into the air by human activity
    • Water falling as rain in the mountains during the winter
    • Heat collected by solar panels on the roofs of the houses
    • Rocks released from volcanoes during eruptions across the land, which then cool and form new layers of rock

  6. Which of these is a stakeholder in a climate decision?

    • A rock layer formed by lava flows over millions of years
    • A type of cloud that forms over the mountains each day
    • A month on the calendar with the most daylight hours
    • A low Pacific island nation facing rising seas

  7. Which principle says countries that caused most past emissions should take the lead in cutting them?

    • Cheaper petrol prices
    • Growing tourist numbers
    • Historical responsibility
    • Fair share of cheap food

  8. Which view says countries emitting most now, including fast-growing economies, should act?

    • Only rich past emitters should act
    • Current big emitters should act
    • Only zero-emission countries must act
    • Nobody needs to act at all

  9. Which of these four countries emits the most CO2 per person?

    • USA
    • China
    • Qatar
    • India

  10. Roughly how many tonnes of CO2 per person does Qatar emit each year?

    • About 14 tonnes
    • About 5 tonnes
    • About 0.6 tonnes
    • About 37 tonnes

  11. Roughly how many tonnes of CO2 per person does India emit each year?

    • About 14 tonnes
    • About 0.6 tonnes
    • About 8 tonnes
    • About 2 tonnes

  12. Why is per-person emissions a fairer measure than total emissions?

    • It only measures emissions from farming and food production
    • It shows which country has the largest population in the world
    • It judges each person equally, not just the size of the country
    • It ignores all differences between countries in their economies and their land, so it is never useful

  13. Which international agreement on climate change was reached in 2015?

    • The Geneva Convention of 1864
    • The Treaty of Versailles
    • The Paris Agreement
    • The Great Reform Act

  14. Why is it hard to reach a global climate agreement?

    • All countries have identical economies and identical priorities
    • Nobody wants to talk about the weather in the international meetings, so the talks always end early
    • Climate change only affects one country, so others can ignore it
    • Countries have different priorities, and cutting emissions can be costly

  15. Why might a poorer country argue that rich countries should pay for its adaptation?

    • Rich countries caused most past emissions and can afford to help
    • Poorer countries never suffer from climate change in any region
    • Poorer countries have caused most of the emissions in history, so they should pay for everything themselves
    • Rich countries have no emissions at all, so they have no duty

  16. Which evidence best supports the view that rich countries should act first and pay most?

    • Data on past emissions by rich nations
    • A list of Olympic winners from history
    • A photo of a quiet beach at low tide
    • One hot summer measured in one city

  17. Which evidence best supports the view that fast-growing economies must also cut emissions now?

    • Data on fast-growing economies' emissions today
    • A census of world population in the 1500s
    • A map of ancient river channels with no dates
    • Emissions only from Europe in the 1800s

  18. Why should a geographer use more than one source before deciding?

    • To check for bias and reach a balanced judgement
    • To avoid reading any data at all, which makes it easier
    • To find the single source that agrees with them every time
    • To make the decision take longer so people can think again

  19. Which judgement best supports high-income countries funding adaptation in poorer countries?

    • Only poorer countries should pay for everything, whatever it costs them
    • They caused most past emissions, so funding helps those harmed, while poorer countries still cut emissions
    • Funding is never fair under any circumstances, for any country at all
    • They should fund nothing because they are rich and should keep their money for their own people

  20. Why does a decision on climate responsibility need both total and per-person emissions data?

    • Only total data matters because population never changes in any country
    • Total data shows overall scale, while per-person data shows fairness between people
    • Total data is always wrong and per-person data is always right in every case
    • Per-person data is useless for any climate decision, because it never shows the real size of anything

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