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6. What are facts about Destructive plate boundaries?

  • Subduction
  • Subduction, Explosive eruption, Ocean trenches
  • Rift valleys, Mid-ocean ridges
  • Plate Convergence

7. What can a drought cause?

  • Storm
  • Anticyclone
  • Hurricane
  • Flood

8. The difference between a natural hazard and a natural disasters is the scale of the impact towards people, economy and society?

  • True
  • False

9. What type of energy is carbon free?

  • HEP, Tidal, Nuclear
  • Solar, Biofuels, Tidal

10. What are short-term climate changes caused by?

  • Too much tuna being eaten
  • Too many strawberries being picked
  • The impact of human activites
  • Too many people in the world

11. What's so special about Sahel, Africa?

  • There are pink zebras there
  • There's more rain there than anywhere else in Africa
  • Over the past 40 years, droughts have accelerated famine, and farmers have had to leave the area
  • It has lions

12. What is an international strategy to tackle climate change?

  • Congestion charge
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • Carbon taxes

13. What's the percentage change in carbon dioxide emissions by the UK, 1990 - 2009?

  • -32
  • -15
  • -18

14. Average global temperatures have increased between 1992 - 2012 by how much?

  • 12 degrees
  • 0.4 degrees
  • 0.7 degrees

15. When does a tropical cyclone occur?

  • When it's cloudy
  • Sea surface temperature is 26 degree or more
  • When the sea is colder than normal
  • When it's snowing

16. What are long-term climate changes caused by?

  • Changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis
  • Too many cows farting
  • The impact of human activities
  • Changes in ocean currents

17. What is the UK per capita carbon emissions/year (tonnes)?

  • 7.5
  • 24
  • 89

18. What strategies are used to mitigate Volcanic Eruptions?

  • Monitoring gases, Monitoring ground inflation
  • Storm shelters, Sea walls
  • Satellite imaging, Land-zone using
  • Building codes, Dams

19. What's the number of countries legally bound to reduce carbon emissions under Kyoto?

  • 35
  • 36
  • 40

20. What is a national strategy to tackle climate change?

  • Kyoto Protocol
  • Carbon taxes
  • Congestion charge