Environment
Human Wellbeing
Geography
Geography 1
General Trivia
100
What term describes the variety of all life forms—plants, animals, and microorganisms—on Earth?
Biodiversity
100
What does GDP stand for? and what does it mean?
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Gross domestic product (GDP), the total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given period
100
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
The Pacific Ocean.
100
What is the process called when a liquid turns into a gas?
Evaporation
100
What is the main ingredient of Vegemite?
Yeast
200
Name three types of renewable energy.
Wind power, solar power, bioenergy (organic matter burned as a fuel) and hydroelectric
200
In what year were the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed upon by 189 countries?
2000
200
Where is the world’s largest desert located?
Antarctica
200
What is the only country that borders the United Kingdom?
Ireland.
200
What is the capital city of Canada?
Ottawa.
300
Which natural hazard is measured using the Richter Scale?
Earthquake
300
Which Local Government Area (LGA) was ranked as the most ADVANTAGED LGA in Australia according to 2016 Census?
Ku-ring-gai NSW
300
Which Local Government Area (LGA) was ranked as the most DISADVANTAGED LGA in Australia according to 2016 Census?
Cherbourg QLD
300
What do the letters HDI stand for? and what are the three dimensions of HDI?
Human Development Index.
Health (Life expectancy), Education (Years of schooling), and Standard of Living (Gross National Income per capita)
300
Which country won the first-ever FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
400
Which international agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels?
Paris Agreement
400
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), established in 2015 to build on the MDGs, increased the total number of global goals to how many?
17
400
The Aztec capital city was located on the site of what modern-day capital city?
Mexico City
400
Which country has the largest percentage of the global Muslim population?
Indonesia
400
In computing, what does the acronym CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit
500
Difference between Anthropocentrism and biocentrism, in the perspective of environmental management.
Anthropocentric concerns for the environment are narrowly aimed at preserving the welfare of humans, while biocentric concerns are oriented toward protecting non-human organisms and nature as a whole.
500
Which type of farming is focused on producing food mainly for the farmer's family, with little or no surplus for sale?
Subsistence Farming
500
Name the 5 countries which end in the letter L
Brazil, Portugal, Senegal, Israel and Nepal
500
What is the specific name of the geological process where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another plate?
Subduction
500
The concept of Continental Drift was first proposed by which German meteorologist and geophysicist in the early 20th century?
Alfred Wegener