Weekly Geography News Quiz for Schools

This weekly geography news quiz for students helps bring current events into the classroom in a quick and engaging way. Designed for KS3 and KS4, the quiz covers a range of topics including geography, environmental news, UK stories, science developments, and major global events. Each quiz contains a mixture of multiple-choice with map skills and global location questions to encourage students to think about where events are happening and why they matter.

The quiz is ideal for tutor time, form time, lesson starters, or end-of-week activities, and helps students build awareness of the world around them while developing their general knowledge. Topics often include natural hazards, climate and wildlife stories, major international developments, and unusual news from around the world.

Feel free to use the quiz as a short classroom activity lasting around 10–15 minutes, making it a simple way to introduce current affairs and geography into the school week.

What’s included:

20 question PowerPoint slide for whole class activity
A4 answer sheet
This week we cover:

• Flooding in Mexico
• Yucatan peninsula and the Chicxulub crater
• Global location South America
• Informal settlements in South Africa
• Apartheid
• How homing pigeons navigate
• Rare earth element treasure maps
• Greenhouse gas formation after rainfall in deserts
• London underground journeys per day and maps!
• Troll Maps!
• Landslides and flooding in Chongqing China
• The Intelligent Robot Carnival in China
• The Øresund bridge
• World Reef Awareness Day 1st June

Curriculum areas:
Global location
Natural Hazards
Coasts
Climate change
Weather
Global development
Ecosystems & habitats
Global location
Rivers

I hope you enjoy this quiz! Please feel free to leave a review and feedback and let me know what you thought of this resource or how it can be improved. Many thanks for your support.

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