Geography Games and Challenges
There are lots of games online that can help you with your Geography.
See the links below.
See the links below.
World Geography Game tests your knowledge of where places are.
Watch out- we find it addictive! world-geography-games.com/
Watch out- we find it addictive! world-geography-games.com/
Seterra -
online.seterra.com/en is similar to World Geography Games, but in greater detail.
online.seterra.com/en is similar to World Geography Games, but in greater detail.
Triviaplaza www.triviaplaza.com/geography-world-quizzes/ Similar to Seterra and World Geography Game. The list of quiz topics on this site is impressive and includes world languages, currencies, landmarks – even airport codes! Each quiz is straightforward and simply designed so that players get immediate feedback as they play. Unique quizzes offer challenges not found on other sites such as “Name the City Square” and “Same Name City Pairs.”
National Geographic have some great games for Key Stage 3 students.
kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/
kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/
www.ducksters.com/games/geography_games.php Ducksters website is similar, but also has a Geography crosswords, wordsearchs and Hangman (Flash needed)
www.ducksters.com/science/ecosystems/world_biomes.php Ducksters also has a good 'Ecosystems' section with quiz.
Geoguessr www.geoguessr.com/
As the player, you are given the Google Street View of a random location and challenged to look for clues that might help you determine where you are. Using the directional arrow tools, you can change your perspective to gather evidence from everything within a 360° view: road signs, vegetation, landmarks, and structures. Make a guess by pinning a location on a world map, and you will find out how close your guess is to the correct location.
As the player, you are given the Google Street View of a random location and challenged to look for clues that might help you determine where you are. Using the directional arrow tools, you can change your perspective to gather evidence from everything within a 360° view: road signs, vegetation, landmarks, and structures. Make a guess by pinning a location on a world map, and you will find out how close your guess is to the correct location.
Zoomtastic zoomtasticgame.com/app You have just 30 seconds to identify the country in this game! A satellite image with a “zoomed-in” map appears on the screen. As it slowly zooms out, once every three seconds, additional information comes into view, such as the name of a river or town. After 10 seconds, you are given four possible choices from which to choose the correct answer.
Earthquakes
United States Geological Survey (USGS) monitor earthquakes and volcanoes around the world. They display this information in real time on their website.https://www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/earthquake-hazards/earthquakes. Take time to explore the rest of their website too.
United States Geological Survey (USGS) monitor earthquakes and volcanoes around the world. They display this information in real time on their website.https://www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/earthquake-hazards/earthquakes. Take time to explore the rest of their website too.
Managing Natural Disasters
www.stopdisastersgame.org/stop_disasters/
This game, fromThe UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction allows you learn the risks posed by different natural disasters and build defences, houses, hospitals to protect the local population - but be quick - there is a time limit!
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/earthscope/volcano_island/
Volcano Island! This is a similar game.
You are the mayor of a island threatened by an active volcano. Can you save the local population? As the mayor it’s your job to decide when you think the volcano is going to erupt and when people should evacuate. But volcanic eruptions are very hard to predict!
www.stopdisastersgame.org/stop_disasters/
This game, fromThe UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction allows you learn the risks posed by different natural disasters and build defences, houses, hospitals to protect the local population - but be quick - there is a time limit!
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/earthscope/volcano_island/
Volcano Island! This is a similar game.
You are the mayor of a island threatened by an active volcano. Can you save the local population? As the mayor it’s your job to decide when you think the volcano is going to erupt and when people should evacuate. But volcanic eruptions are very hard to predict!
Weather
NASA have a variety of games and activities to help us understand the weather, climate change and our atmosphere. climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/play/
NASA have a variety of games and activities to help us understand the weather, climate change and our atmosphere. climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/play/
Ecosystems
Switchzoo
https://switchzoo.com/make_play.htm This game helps us understand more about Ecosystems. You can build your own biome and learn more about animal adaptions.
Switchzoo
https://switchzoo.com/make_play.htm This game helps us understand more about Ecosystems. You can build your own biome and learn more about animal adaptions.
Population
https://www.worldometers.info/ This is the website that we often show to you when we are talking about world population. There is lots of interesting information here, from the numbner of people on our planet, to how much money has been spent on defence by countries, each day. Not a game - but worth exploring.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2019/ This is another populatioan webiste that you may have seen in class. Now you an explore it for yourself. It shows the population pyramids of differnt countries over time. Don't forget to look at the pyramid of the United Arab Emirates!
https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/population-games/world-population-me/
This calculates how many people where living on planet Earth before you were born and since, among many more things. I found out that population of the world has nearly doubled since I was born!
https://www.worldometers.info/ This is the website that we often show to you when we are talking about world population. There is lots of interesting information here, from the numbner of people on our planet, to how much money has been spent on defence by countries, each day. Not a game - but worth exploring.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2019/ This is another populatioan webiste that you may have seen in class. Now you an explore it for yourself. It shows the population pyramids of differnt countries over time. Don't forget to look at the pyramid of the United Arab Emirates!
https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/population-games/world-population-me/
This calculates how many people where living on planet Earth before you were born and since, among many more things. I found out that population of the world has nearly doubled since I was born!
https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/population-games/family-game/#r150
This website is for older students who are studying population changes. It also has great maps showing migration and population statistics.
This website is for older students who are studying population changes. It also has great maps showing migration and population statistics.
IF YOU FIND ANY OTHER GAMES AND INTERESTING WEBSITES - LET YOUR GEOGRAPHY TEACHER KNOW.