SOCIAL STUDIES QUIZ - YEAR 8

Learning about natural regions will help you to _____________. Choose the correct answer (s).

• Appreciate the world about you

• Develop a concern for the environment

• Despise your surroundings

What factor affects climate?

An ________________ is the interaction of plants and animals with their non-living surroundings

Mediterranean climate is usually found:

• on the east coasts of continents

• between latitudes 30 and 40 degrees north and south of the Equator

If a volcano has erupted recently and is likely to erupt again is said to be.....................

• dormant

• active

• extinct

Below is a list of problems that face authorities after an earthquake. Which three do you consider the most urgent?

• Provide new homes for people

• Search for missing people

• Supply medicine

• Supply food and drinking water

• Evacuate people in danger

List any three types of industrial pollution

Below is a list of renewable and non-renewable resources. Choose the Non-renewable resources.

• Wind

• Oil

• Water

• Coal

• Nuclear

Resources can be conserved by

• Recycling

• Increasing efficiency

• Reducing consumption

• Overusing

Below is a checklist of some things for conserving energy. Choose the things that illustrate reducing consumption as a strategy to conserve resources

• Switch of the computer when finished

• Switch off TV when not in use

• Say no to extra packaging in shops

• Use recycling bins and bottle banks

• Use both sides of a sheet of paper