1. The Big Geography Quiz of the Year

2. Weather & Climate
Round 7

3. Question 1
What does an anemometer show?

4. Question 2
Name a gas that has contributed to human-enhanced climate change.

5. Question 3
What does an ‘okta’ measure?

6. Question 4
Name 2 effects that will happen to coastal locations such as this in Norway if climate change continues to take place and sea level rise occurs

7. Question 5 What is the centre of a hurricane called? A) The middle
B) The eye
C) The central zone
D) The hole

8. Question 6
The world has different climate zones. Which climate zone is the UK in?

9. Question 7 This is Ben Haddou in Morocco.
How might the climate cause difficulties for people living here?

10. Question 8 What conditions does a hurricane need to form?
A) Seas over 40°C, tropical rains, strong winds
B) Seas over 26.5°C, deep water, in the tropics
C) Seas over 35.5°, deep water, on the equator

11. Question 9
Antarctica is a desert. True or false?

12. Question 10
Name one type of rainfall

13. Answers: Weather & Climate Round 7
Wind speed
CO2, methane, ozone, water vapour
Cloud cover
Flooding of properties, loss of ecosystems, drowned fjords, changed fishing patterns, loss of tourism, loss of income etc.
B - Eye
Temperate zone
Drought, lack of reliable rainfall, difficult to grow crops, sandstorms etc.
B - Seas over 26.5°C, deep water, in the tropics
True, cold desert
Convection rain, orographic/relief rain, frontal rain