Climate drivers and weather
LAND COVER TRANSFORMATION & ANTHROPOGENIC BIOMES
Geography Oddities
Incredible Earth
Geo Trivia
100

This is the day-to-day condition of the atmosphere.

What is weather?

100

Human-altered ecosystems such as cities and croplands are known as these.

What are anthropogenic biomes?

100

This nation has more bicycles than people.

What is Netherlands?

100

The deepest place on Earth is found in this ocean.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

100

This country to the North of Australia has more than 17,000 islands.

What is Indonesia?

200

The long-term average pattern of weather over many years.

What is climate?

200

Cities and towns with dense populations and infrastructure are classified as this anthropogenic biome.

What are urban areas? Or what is urbanisation?

200

The world's tallest waterfall is found in this South American country. Hint: They have A LOT of oil

What is Venezuala?

200

This Scandinavian country experiences both the midnight sun and polar night.  Hint: They were near top of the medal table at the last winter Olympic games.

What is Norway?

200

This nation is home to the world's northernmost capital city. Hint - Rakel should know

What is Iceland?

300

This fast-moving band of air high in the atmosphere influences weather systems.  Hint, it shares its name with an airplane.

What is Jet stream?

300

In a consequences wheel, this sits at the centre of the diagram.

What is the land use change/problem being investigated?

300

This country is both in Europe and Asia and it's not chicken.

What is Turkey?

300

The world's largest island that is not a continent.

What is Greenland?

300

This desert is larger than the entire United States. Hint - Sahara should know.

What is the Sahara?

400

El Niño is part of this climate system that affects rainfall patterns across the Pacific.  

What is ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation)

400

Biodiversity loss, soil erosion and climate change were consequences linked to this process in the Amazon.

What is deforestation?

400

This sea is shrinking rapidly because rivers that once fed it were diverted for agriculture.

What is the Aral Sea?

400

This African lake contains about 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh surface water. Hint - it shares its names with an Australian state

What is Lake Victoria?

400

The world's largest living structure can be seen from space and is located off the coast of Queensland.

What is the Great Barrier Reef?

500

The three major climate drivers studied in class were global winds, ocean circulation and this.

What are precipitation patterns?

500

Croplands, rangelands and urban areas all have this in common.

What are human-created or human modified land uses?

500

This country in the Middle East has no rivers at all.

What is Saudi Arabia?

500

The only continent that is moving north fast enough for geologists to measure each year.  What an island it is.

What is Australia?

500

This country contains the largest population of wild camels on Earth, despite camels not being native to it.

What is Australia?

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