Geog in News Revision

57.8% of minister positions are held by women in this South American country

Pope Francis visited which Islamic country in West Asia last week?

This country is now the European Union's biggest trading partner worth US$709bn last year.

Which country officially left the European Union (EU) at 11pm on 31 December 2020?

Plastics are made mostly from which natural resource?

66.7% of minister positions are held by women in this European country

The usually bone-dry bed of this river that runs through Alice Springs has begun to flow due to heavy rain.

The smallest reptile on earth, a chameleon the size of a seed, on which island nation off Africa?

Into which industrial sector would a geographer classify music streaming services?

ReconAfrica has been given the go-ahead to explore the deep Kavango Basin in the Kalahari Desert for oil and gas.

Which ancient pine tree, has been given protected status to try to ensure its survival located in NSW?

How are the finer particles of silt or clay transported in sandstorms?

112kg of food waste per capita (small oil producing nation on the west coast of the Persian Gulf)

Forests in Brazil and this country in the Amazon Basin have been suffering from severe deforestation.

A landslide near the capital city of Oslo in late December forced the evacuation of 900 villagers?

A public outcry over the city of Port Elizabeth being renamed Gqeberha occurred in this country

According to the ABS, Australia’s population grew to what figure by 30th September 2020?

In which of these climates would you be more likely to get a malaria infection?

Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly what proportion of the world's original tropical rainforest cover?

Deforestation in this Central African country is due to over-exploitation, poaching and overgrazing?

A new mega-iceberg has broken away in Antarctica. What is it called when an iceberg breaks away from an ice shelf?

The woolly rhinoceros became extinct at the end of the last Ice Age. The last Ice Age ended how many years ago?

Data from the ABS revealed which state capitals have recorded a loss of between 7000 and 8000 people during Covid-19?

What process does water vapour undergo immediately before raindrops are formed?

What are these smaller shocks that follow a major earthquake called?

Earthquakes are what type of natural hazard?

Which Australian state has announced that it will now allow genetically modified crops to be grown?

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has sent more than 11,000 Ebola vaccines to this African after an outbreak

Geographers classify car making into what industrial sector?

Which German car manufacturer has recalled over one million vehicles due to a safety defect?

This Southeast Asian country have continued with protests over the military takeover of their country.

In Australia the cyclone season usually occurs between which months?

The modern sport of soccer (football) had its beginnings in which country in the 19th century?

What is the environmental motive for carmakers to focus more on making electric vehicles?

129kg of food waste per capita (small island nation in the Mediterranean Sea)

The sandstorm that was blown came from which desert that borders northern China and Mongolia?

This city seems set to host the 2032 Summer Olympics

58.8% of minister positions are held by women in this Central American country

Which music streaming service has announced that it is to launch in 85 new markets to many less developed countries?

Which Chinese city was struck by a huge sandstorm that lifted its air pollution levels above WHO guidelines?

Australia is to provide 8,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to which near neighbour?

Large amounts of the Peninsula Developmental Road have been washed away during monsoonal rains in far N QLD.

Landslides are what type of geomorphic process?

An Ice Age era woolly rhinoceros has been unearthed by locals in which region of Russia?

Land has been secured for koalas, one is the Cataract National Park located near to Australia’s most easterly point

The earthquake led to what process that turned the soil to quicksand destabilising many homes?

Which East Asian country have banned children from using mobile phones at school?

Farming in western Queensland is dominated by what type of agriculture?

Hundreds of people are missing after a dam collapsed in the foothills of which mountain range in northern India?

Which eastern European country with its coast on the Adriatic Sea was hit by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in December?

Which human activities are responsible for the decline of the world’s tropical rainforests?

On 22nd February which New Zealand city commemorated the 10th anniversary of the earthquake in which 185 people died?

Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are what type of geomorphic processes?

A World Health Organisation team has begun their investigation of the origin of the Covid-19 virus in this city?

Fishermen on Lake Victoria in this country have begun using some of Africa’s first electric fishing boats.

Which introduced animal is in plague proportions in rural NSW this summer?

2021 is what year according to the sequence of twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac?

A theme park dedicated to Nintendo's famous Super Mario World has opened in which East Asian country?

Concerns about 10-year high lead levels in the blood of children living in this SA town.

A Maori MP has been ejected from which country’s parliament for not wearing a tie?