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:

• Delhi looks to ban petrol rickshaws and scooters to reduce air pollution
• Etna erupts illuminating the night sky
• Geohazards - why do people live near volcanoes?
• Skywalkers on the Empire State Building New York
• State of Emergency declared in NE Italy due to the continued drought
• Impacts of low flow on the river Po and salt water incursion
• World Cup Stadiums - MetLife NYC
• Wildfires in Canada
• Successive droughts prompt regenerative farming in the UK
• Glacier Loss Day and the Rhone Glacier - Switzerland
• Glaciation, pyramidal peaks and the Matterhorn
• Lake Chad, Africa and wetland habitats
• Building damage assessments from satellite data in Venezuela
• 81k people still displaced after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines in June 2026
• Sand erosion and transportation reveals buried treasure in Margam, Port Talbot.

Curriculum areas:
Global location Europe, Africa, North America
Earthquakes hazards
Drought hazards
Wildfire hazards
Volcanic hazards
Hydrological systems
Geomorphology
Climate change
Global development
Ecosystems & habitats
Rivers
Glaciation
Population

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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