Weather, Climate and Ecosystems overview quiz - WJEC GCSE Geography quiz

The most recent geological period, with repeated glacials and interglacials

A single ice age 10,000 years ago

The period before the dinosaurs

A type of weather system

Satellite photos from the 1500s

Ice cores with trapped air bubbles

Modern thermometers only

Tide tables

Burning fossil fuels

Deforestation

Cars and factories

Volcanic eruptions

By releasing extra carbon dioxide and methane that trap more heat

By blocking the Sun with satellites

By cooling the oceans

By increasing the Earth's tilt

They are the same thing

Weather is day to day; climate is the long-term average over about 30 years

Climate is day to day; weather is the long-term average

Weather only happens in summer

Dry, calm, settled conditions

No change in weather

Cloud, rain and wind as fronts pass

Only snow

Cold seas near the poles

Warm ocean water of about 27 degrees Celsius and the Coriolis effect

Dry land in a desert

High mountains

A producer plant

A decomposer fungus

A herbivore

The climate

It is lost as heat at each trophic level, so less passes upward

It increases at each level

It is recycled back to the plants

It stays exactly the same

Nutrients are lost as heat

Nutrients never move

Nutrients are recycled by decomposers and reused, while energy flows through and is lost

Nutrients only come from the Sun

It never rains there

Most nutrients are stored in the living plants, not the soil

The soil is frozen

There are no decomposers

Creating national parks

Ecotourism

Replanting trees

Cattle ranching and plantations such as palm oil

Clear-felling the whole forest

Selective logging with replanting and ecotourism

Banning all local people from the area

Mining as much as possible

As coursework only

By an oral exam

By data response in the Unit 2 written exam (1 hour 30 minutes)

In the fieldwork enquiry only