Geography in the News - Term 2 - Week 8

1. Environmentalists are celebrating having saved

more than 40 trees from being chopped down

around which iconic Paris landmark as part of a

€72m scheme to create a huge garden?

• a) Colosseum

• b) Eiffel Tower

• c) Brandenburg Gate

• d) Buckingham Palace

2. Britain has concluded extended celebration

events to mark the platinum jubilee of Queen

Elizabeth II’s reign. How many years has she

been on the throne?

• a) 40 years

• b) 50 years

• c) 60 years

• d) 70 years

3. What type of government does Britain have?

• a) Presidential democracy

• b) Constitutional monarchy

• c) Absolute monarchy

• d) Dictatorship

4. For the first time microplastics have been found

in freshly fallen snow on which continent?

• a) North America

• b) Australia

• c) Antarctica

• d) Asia

5. Which fast food giant has been forced to put

cabbage in its burgers and wraps in Australia as

the country is struggling with a shortage of

lettuce?

• a) McDonalds

• b) KFC

• c) Fast Eddies

• d) Subway

6. Why is lettuce in such short supply in Australia at

the moment?

• a) Floods in northern NSW and southeast

  Queensland

• b) Lettuce blight

• c) Bushfires in northern NSW and southeast

  Queensland

• d) Too much is being exported

7. With about 14 million metric tons produced

annually, which country is by far the greatest

producer of lettuce?

• a) USA

• b) Canada

• c) China

• d) Australia

8. Southern and Eastern Australia shivered from

temperatures 2°C to 5°C below average last

week with cold air from which source drawn in by

a series of cold fronts?

• a) Coral Sea

• b) Southern Ocean

• c) Indian Ocean

• d) Tasman Sea

9. The cold conditions brought what form of

precipitation to the Australian high country that

makes for a good ski season?

• a) Hail

• b) Rain

• c) Sleet

• d) Snow

10.Anthony Albanese visited which near neighbour

of Australia on his first bilateral* overseas trip

since being sworn in as prime minister?

• a) Indonesia

• b) New Zealand

• c) Timor Leste

• d) Papua New Guinea