UK Geography and Nature

Wildlife, Weather and Environment

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  1. What colour is a typical British red squirrel's fur?
  2. Which disease, carried by eastern grey squirrels, often kills red squirrels?
  3. Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, which closed in September 2024, was the UK's last power station burning which fuel?
  4. Which bird was voted Britain's national bird in a 2015 poll organised by the birdwatcher David Lindo?
  5. Which animal was reintroduced to Scotland in 2009 on a trial at Knapdale, in Argyll?
  6. Which wind brings cold dry air to the UK from the east in winter?
  7. Which summer is the warmest on record for the UK?
  8. Which marine mammal haul-out is found on the Farne Islands off Northumberland?
  9. Which cat, native to Scotland and listed as Critically Endangered in the United Kingdom, is threatened by hybridisation with domestic cats?
  10. What is the name for the large area of lowland bog and peatland that stretches across Caithness and Sutherland in northern Scotland?
  11. In which year did the last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom close?

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