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1
What coastal landform can you see from this OS map?
Crack, cave, arch, stack and stump
Wave cut platform
Bar
Spit
2
Who is the best Geography teacher in the world?
Mr Horner
Mr Horner
Mr Horner
Mr Horner
3
What is the name of an organsim that produces its own energy?
Creator
Consumer
Decomposer
Producer
4
Which of the following landforms is found in the lower course of a river?
Gorges
V-shaped valleys
Waterfalls
Levees
5
Reducing the Debt of LIC countries is a sustainable way to reduce deforestation?
False
True
6
Erosion is the breakdown or wearing away of material
False
True
7
Which of the following is NOT an example of hard enginnering flood management
Dams and reservoirs
Embankments
Channel straightening
Planting trees
8
Which of the following is a mitigating factor against climate change?
Changing agricultural systems
Managing water supplies
Carbon capture
Coping with rising sea levels
9
Which plate boundary does the plates move away from eachother?
Conservative
Descructive
Constructive
10
Cold December 2010: 7000 schools shut is an economic impact
True
False
11
"People cut down the rainforest becuase the economic benefits outweigh the envrionmental costs" True or false?
True
False
12
Which of the following is your case study example of extreme weather?
Banbury flooding 2007
Summerset flooding
Beast from the East
Cold December 2010
13
What do the abbreviations HIC, NEE and LIC measure
A country's development
A country's wealth
A country's amount of natural disasters
A country's demographic
14
What coastal landform can you see from this OS map?
Spit
Bar
Wave cut platform
Headland and Bay
15
Lateral erosion is more common in the upper course of a river?
False
True
16
Which of the following river landforms is NOT created by erosion?
Interlocking spurs
Meanders
Floodplains
Waterfalls
17
Which of the following is NOT an erosional landform found along the coast?
Spits
Headlands and Bays
Wave cut platforms
Crack, cave, arch, stack and stump
18
How many people died in the L'Aquilla earthquake in 2009?
870
290
80,000
1800
19
What best describes an immediate response?
The impacts that happen later on after the primary effects
Effects that are dealt with straight away to reduce the number of deaths
The immediate impacts of the ground shaking
Focussed on rebuiliding + planning to reduce effects from future hazards
20
The worst weather conditions in a tropical storm are found in the eye wall
True
False
21
What is the correct ordering of the structure of the earth? (From the centre outwards)
Inner core, Outer core, Mantle, Crust
Outer core, Inner core, Mantle, crust
Mantle, Inner core, Outer core, Crust
Crust, Mantle, Outer core, Inner core
22
What is your case study for deforestation?
Congo rainforest
Amazon rainforest
The New forest
South East Asia rainforest
23
What river landform can be seen in the OS map?
Estuary
V-shaped valley
Oxbow lake
Meander
24
What is your case study for development in hot deserts?
The Gobi Desert
The Sahara Desert
The Thar Desert
The Kalahari Desert
25
Which way will climate change NOT affect tropical storms?
The name of the storms
Distribution
Intensity
Frequency
26
Where in the world do you NOT find tropical rainforests?
In between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
Asia
Along the equator
Europe
27
Which of the following is NOT a cause of deforestation?
Planting trees
Cattle ranching
Mineral extraction
Commercial farming
28
What is the process called in which nutrients are taken away from the soil?
Losing
Breaching
Poaching
Leaching
29
What is your coastal management case study?
The Dorset coast
The Teesside coast
The Holderness coast
The Jurrasic coast
30
How many people were killed during Hurricane Katrina?
80,000
1800
1200
290
31
Which of the following is an erosional landform found along the coastline?
Beaches
Headlands and Bays
Sand dunes
Spits
32
Which of the following is a challenge towards development in the Sahara desert?
Extreme temperatures
Mineral extraction
Farming
Oil and Gas extraction
33
Whare the the 4 different types of erosion?
Hydrualic action, abrasion, suspension and solution
Abrasion, attrition, solution, saltation
Abrasion, traction, solution, hydrualic action
Hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition, solution
34
What time geological time period are we currently in?
Tertiary
Primary
Secondary
Quaternary
35
Lowland areas of the UK are found towards the South-East of the UK?
True
False
36
Cold December 2010: £1.6 billion worth of damage/cost is an economic impact
False
True
37
The Kashmir earthquake is an LIC earthquake example?
True
False
38
Mitigation means reducing the causes of climate change?
False
True
39
How much money did Brazil make in 2008 from trading cattle as a result of deforestation?
$6.9 billion
$6.9 million
$69 billion
$9.6 billion
40
What are the 2 main river processes involved in the formation of a meander?
Erosion and Traction
Erosion and transportation
Erosion and Deposition
Transportation and deposition
41
Which of the following is NOT a reason why people choose to live near areas of tectonic activity?
Family and friends live there
Agriculture becuase of the fertile land
Tourism
Governments tell people to live there
42
What are your case studies for tectonic hazards?
L'Aquilla and Katrina
L'Aquilla and Kashmir
Kashmir and Haiti
Kashmir and Katrina
43
The long profile of a river looks at the gradient (steepness) of the river from the upper to lower course
False
True
44
What direction do descructive plates move in?
Away from eachother
Alongside eachother at different speeds or in opposite directions
Towards eachother
45
Which of the following statements is incorrect about the global distribution of tropical storms
Found inbetween the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
Found on the Equator
Found around/along the equator
Found in South East Asia and Central America
46
What does river discharge mean?
How fast was the water flowing per second
The likelihood of a river flooding
The volume of water flowing in a river per second
How much material is being transported per second
47
Which type of wave has a weak swash but strong backwash?
Deconstructive waves
Tidal wave
Constructive wave
Destructive waves
48
What wasnt a flood management strategy to reduce flooding in Banbury?
Flood storage area
Road raising
Pumping stations
Sandbag piles
49
Which of the following coastal defences is an example of soft engineering?
Sea wall
Groynes
Beach nourishment
Rock armour
50
Deposition is the dropping of material
True
False
51
What is the name given to the atmospheric cell closest to the equator?
Weather Cell
Hadley Cell
Polar Cell
Ferrel Cell
52
High pressure is when air rises in our atmosphere creating clouds and rain
False
True
53
What sustainable management technique against deforestation involves only cutting down a certain amount or type of tree?
Selective logging
Replanting
Ecotourism
International agreements
54
Which of the following is an opporunity towards development in the Sahara desert?
Inaccessability
Lack of water supply
Tourism
Extreme temperatures
55
What % of New Orleans was flooded becuase of Hurricane Katrina?
80%
90%
70%
70-80%
56
What classification of development is the UK?
NEE
None
HIC
LIC
57
Which statement is correct about hot deserts climate?
Extreme temperatures and less than 2500mm of rainfall a year
Extreme temperatures and less than 250mm of rainfall a year
Warm temperatures and less than 250mm of rainfall a year
Extreme temperatures and more than 250mm of rainfall a year
58
Which of these factors DOES NOT increase hazard risk?
Mobile phone usage
Agriculture
Urbanisation
Poverty
59
Which of the following is not an example of Mass Movement?
Rockfalls
Sliding
longshore drift
Slumping
60
How many people do the Buenaventura mining company employ in Peru?
5700
3100
2300
1300
61
A Geological hazard is caused by weather and climate
False
True
62
Freeze thaw action is an example of what type of weathering?
Biological weathering
Chemical weathering
Technological weathering
Mechanical weathering
63
What are the 4 examples of transportation found along coasts and rivers
Traction, saltation, solution, longshore drift
Traction, saltation, solution, abrasion
Longshore drft, traction, solution, attrition
Traction, saltation, suspension, solution
64
What do the 3P's stand for?
Predict, Protect and Pressume
Predict, Protect and Prepare
Precict, Plan and Prepare
Protect, Plan and Prepare
65
Which of the following is a natural cause of desertification?
Population growth
Overgrazing
Over-cultivation
Climate change
66
Which of the following is NOT a strategy to reduce the risk of desertification?
Water management
Soil management
Appropriate technology use
Cutting down trees
67
How many tonnes of topsoil is lost every year from deforestation and soil erosion?
77 million
66 million
55 million
44 million
68
Adaptation means responding to chnages caused by climate change?
True
False
69
Which of the following is a human cause of flooding?
Urbanisation
Prolonged rainfall
Geology of the land
Relief of the land
70
What do convection currents cause?
Tectonic plates to move
Heats up the earth
Extreme weather
Only oceanic plates to move
71
The role of a decomposer is to take nutrients from the soil?
True
False
72
The Oceanic crust is denser than the continental crust
False
True
73
Which of the following is a human cause of climate change
Orbital changes
Volcanic activity
Solar output
Burning fossil fuels
74
Transportation is the dropping of material?
True
False
75
The continental crust can be destroyed whereas the oceanic cannot be destroyed
True
False
76
At which plate boundary do you not find volcanoes?
Conservative
Constructive
Desctructive
77
Which one of the following is NOT a peice of evidence to support climate change
Temperature records
Ice cores
Tree rings
Rising sea levels
78
Which of the following countries would you find the amazon rainforest in?
Brazil
Australia
Nigeria
Malaysia
79
Desertification is when the land becomes drier, degraded and becoming less desert like
False
True
80
What temperature does the sea/ocean have to be for tropical storms to form?
30 degrees
2.7 degrees
24 degrees
27 degrees
81
Which of the following is NOT a geological hazard?
Hurricane
Earthquake
Tsunami
Volcanic eruption
82
Which of the following is NOT an immediate response of Hurricane Katrina?
Charities provided aid and 5.7 million hot meals
$14.5 billion to rebuild flood defences
Coast guard and police rescued over 50,000 people
70-80% of New Orleans residents were evacuated
83
What creates waves?
The fetch
The tide
Gravity
The wind
84
What statement best describes the climate of a tropical rainforest?
Average temp between 26-28 degrees and less than 2000mm of rainfall a year
Average temp between 32-36 degrees and less than 2000mm of rainfall a year
Average temp between 26-28 degrees and over 2000mm of rainfall per year
Average temp between 32-36 degrees and over 2000mm of rainfall per year
85
How many people were made homeless in the kashmir earthquake?
3 million
80,000
300,000
60,000
