Natural Disasters
What is a strong wind that results in a vortex?
A tornado.
What is the name of the liveability criteria that deals with buildings?
Infrastructure.
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest.
What is the name of one half of a sphere or globe?
A hemisphere
Name the 7 continents.
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
What is an extreme wind event involving snow?
A blizzard.
What is the name of the liveability criteria that deals with doctors and hospitals?
Healthcare
The term used for any natural feature of the earth’s surface.
Landforms.
What is the tool that indicates directions on a map.
A compass
What country grows by 5cm each year?
Iceland.
What natural disaster leads to an extreme lack of water in an area?
A drought.
What is the name of the liveability criteria that deals with pollution, animals and plants?
Environment
What is the term used for all visible features of an area of land often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.
Landscapes.
Which direction do the lines of latitude run, and which direction do the lines of longitude run?
Latitude run East-West.
Longitude run North-South.
What is the name of the longest River in Australia?
The Murray River.
A period of abnormally high temperatures over a period of more than two days.
A heatwave.
What is the most liveable city in the world?
Vienna.
Identify a famous landform in Australia.
Uluru (NT), the Three Sisters (NSW), the Twelve Apostles (VIC).
What is the name of the imaginary line that runs around the centre of the Earth?
The Equator
What causes an earthquake?
Tectonic plates colliding/hitting each other.
What was the most dangerous earthquake in Australian history?
The Tasman sea earthquake.
What is the name of the liveability criteria that deals with schools, students and learning?
Education
What is geomorphology?
The study of landforms and how they are shaped.
Which is the correct format for writing the latitude and longitude of a location?
60°N, 100°W OR 100°W, 60°N
60°N, 100°W
(coordinates for longitude are written first; coordinates for latitude are written second).
In what year was the most recent tornado in Australia?
2024 - Western Australia last month.