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How successfully are people in LICs fighting back against climate change?
Test your knowledge of the impacts of climate change on low-income countries and the action they are taking to mitigate its effects with this 14-question GCSE quiz.
If you haven't already done it, work through the unit on LICs and climate change on the PowerPoint. Or look at it again to help fill in any gaps in your knowledge!
https://geographyeducationonline.org/gcse/human-geography/how-successfully-are-people-in-lics-fighting-back-against-climate-change
HIGH SCORES
| Rank | Name | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | AJH | 30 |
| 2nd | IEL | 30 |
| 3rd | ... | 29 |
| 4th | ADW | 29 |
| 5th | A.M | 29 |
| 6th | MAR | 29 |
| 7th | Hmf | 28 |
| 8th | 69W | 28 |
| 9th | GAM | 28 |
| 10th | aeg | 27 |
QUIZZES // How successfully are people in LICs fighting back against climate change?
Q1. What is an LIC?
Less informed country
Low income country
Low income continent
Less informed continent
Q2. Which area is becoming wetter?
The Sahel
Southern Asia
Northern and Central Asia
Southern Africa
Q3. Which of these African cities isn’t at risk from sea level rise?
Lagos
Alexandria
Massawa
Kampala
Q4. What has WWF planted along parts of the coastline in Pakistan to protect against storms and flooding?
Palm trees
Mangroves
Coral
Salt marsh
Q5. What is meant by mitigating climate change?
Adjusting our way of life to cope with changes
Taking action to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere
Measuring greenhouse gasses to check levels
Warning people when problems are likely to occur
Q6. What is resilience?
Adjusting our way of life to cope with changes
Taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Ability to resist, absorb, adapt and recover from effects of a threat
A way of protesting about climate change
Q7. Which Sustainable Development Goal is about ‘Climate action’?
Goal 1
Goal 6
Goal 13
Goal 16
Q8. Which of the following is not a local benefit of the scheme in Zimbabwe to improve stoves?
The businesses making stoves make bigger profits
Women can make their own stoves using local materials
New stoves are more efficient so burn less wood and release less carbon dioxide
New stoves make less smoke
Q9. Why are schools and community centres being built in Maputo as part of the ‘Living with Floods’ initiative?
There were no schools in this area before
All the schools and community centres had been washed away by floods
The new schools and community centres can be used as shelters during floods
People can move into the schools to live there permanently
Q10. How do children’s activities such as drama and making posters support disaster risk reduction in Dhaka?
They help children forget about times floods have brought disaster to Dhaka
They keep children busy so they don’t get into trouble
They earn money for the children’s organisations to spend on flood defence
They raise awareness of actions people can take to reduce risk
Q11. In which year was the Paris Agreement on climate change adopted?
1992
2005
2015
2019
Q12. What is ocean acidification?
When factories release acid into rivers and the sea, causing acidification of the ocean
When the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and becomes more acidic
When coral reefs die because the ocean water is too acidic
When carbon dioxide in the ocean is absorbed by the atmosphere, making it more acidic
Q13. How are precipitation patterns across Africa projected to change in the future?
There will be more rainfall
There will be less rainfall
Most places will see more rainfall, but some will see less
Most places will see less rainfall, but some will see more
Q14. Which of the places below is a tropical island threatened by climate change?
Tuvalu
Motunui
Isle of Wight
Funafuti
Finished!
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