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WorksheetsGeography in the News - Term 2 - Week 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
1. Scientists at which English university have made
a breakthrough in developing a drug to combat
malaria which the WHO* says, in its latest report,
infected 241 million people in 2020?
a) Harvard
b) Yale
c) Oxford
d) Sorbonne
2. In Tanzania, architects have created a house they
hope will reduce cases of malaria by limiting the
numbers of which insect getting inside?
a) Flies
b) Mosquitoes
c) Fleas
d) Lice
3. What are insects that spread disease amongst
humans known as?
a) Insect transmitters
b) Insect injectors
c) Insect transgressors
d) Insect vectors
4. Russia has stopped supply of which fossil fuel to
Poland and Bulgaria because they refuse to pay
for it in Russian roubles?
a) Oil
b) Coal
c) Peat
d) Natural gas
5. The heaviest rains in over 20 years flooded the
central parts of which Australian state including
Winton where the cliffs at the Australian Age of
Dinosaurs Museum were turned into waterfalls?
a) New South Wales
b) Queensland
c) Victoria
d) South Australia
6. Which famous British naturalist and TV presenter
was given the “Champion of the Earth - Lifetime
Achievement Award” by the United Nations?
a) David Attenborough
b) Philipe Cousteau jr
c) David Suzuki
d) Tim Flannery
7. An early-morning hot air balloon ride ended in a
crash landing on an apartment rooftop in which
Australian city?
a) Sydney
b) Melbourne
c) Hobart
d) Adelaide
8. Hot air balloons use heated air to rise similar to
what process that may cause air to rise in the
atmosphere?
a) Convection
b) Conduction
c) Convergence
d) Divergence
9. At the end of winter a family, in which west coast
US state, found five bears hibernating in the
crawlspace under their home?
a) Michigan
b) Kansas
c) California
d) Colorado
10.Emmanuel Macron has been elected to a second
5-year term as president of which European
country?
a) Germany
b) Belgium
c) Spain
d) France
11.Elon Musk, owner of electric carmaker Tesla and
SpaceX, has bought which social media platform
for A$61 billion?
a) Youtube
b) Meta
c) Twitter
d) Instagram
12. Geographers classify social media platforms into
which industrial sector?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) Quaternary
13.China has signed a security deal with which
Pacific island nation?
a) Fiji
b) Solomons
c) Marshall Islands
d) Tonga
14.Indonesia announced a surprise export ban on
which vegetable oil used in food, cosmetics and
cleaning products?
a) Palm oil
b) Sunflower oil
c) Soybean oil
d) Olive oil
15.With output estimated at 76.5 million tonnes,
which oil is the world’s most important vegetable
oil in terms of production and consumption?
a) Palm oil
b) Sunflower oil
c) Soybean oil
d) Olive oil
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