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WorksheetsGeography in the News - Term 2 - Week 7
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
1. After a two year break due to Covid, Vivid, a
festival of light, music and ideas, returned to
which Australian capital city?
a) Melbourne
b) Sydney
c) Adelaide
d) Hobart
2. Vivid is best described as what type of event?
a) Cultural event
b) Natural event
c) Economic event
d) Geographic event
3. A number of people were injured in a boating
accident in the Horizontal Falls in which region of
Western Australia?
a) Great Southern
b) Pilbara
c) Eastern Goldfields
d) Kimberley
4. The Horizontal Falls are created by the flow of
large tides passing through two short, steep
gorges. The world’s largest tides occur in which
bay of eastern Canada?
a) Bay of Sundy
b) Bay of Mundy
c) Bay of Fundy
d) Bay of Bundy
5. Lincoln Crowley QC has become the first
Indigenous Australian to be a judge in which
court, the highest of state courts, after he was
appointed to the role in Queensland?
a) District Court
b) Magistrate Court
c) High Court
d) Supreme Court
6. Jai Handley, from which state, became the first
Australian to win the classic Giro d’Italia cycle
race?
a) New South Wales
b) Victoria
c) Western Australia
d) Tasmania
7. The Giro d’Italia is one of three European road
cycling events, called Grand Tours, that are run in
daily stages over three weeks. What are the
other two Grand Tours?
a) Tour de France and Vuelta a España
b) Tour de France and Tour of Britain
c) Tour of Britain and Vuelta España
d) Tour of Britain and Abu Dhabi Tour
8. A previously unknown population of koalas
has been found in which Australian national park?
a) Kakadu National Park
b) Royal National Park
c) Purnululu National Park
d) Kosciuszko National Park
9. Koalas are what type of mammals?
a) Carnivores
b) Placentals
c) Monotremes
d) Marsupials
10. At least 239 barriers, including dams and weirs,
were removed across 17 countries in Europe in
2021, in a record-breaking year for dam removals
across the continent. Why are many dams and
weirs being removed?
a) They are now obsolete
b) To improve the ecosystems of rivers
c) To return natural sediment flow
d) All of the above
11.The passage of which weather events across
Eastern Australia brought high winds, rain, snow
and very low temperatures last week?
a) Cold fronts
b) High pressure systems
c) Warm fronts
d) Occluded fronts
12.Researchers have found that a patch of seagrass
in Shark Bay, on the coast of which Australian
state, is the largest and oldest single plant in the
world?
a) Tasmania
b) Victoria
c) Western Australia
d) Queensland
13. Swiss customs authorities have discovered a 700
year old samurai sword, a cultural artefact of
which East Asian country, after it was smuggled
into the country?
a) China
b) Japan
c) South Korea
d) North Korea
14.A high speed train has partly derailed after hitting
a mudslide in the province of Guizhou in which
East Asian country?
a) China
b) Japan
c) South Korea
d) North Korea
15.Mudslides are what type of geomorphic process?
a) Weathering
b) Erosion
c) Tectonism
d) Mass movement
16. View the image and read, then write no. 16's missing word here.
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