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Junior Cycle Geography: Climate

How often Climate comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Climate, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Climate.

(a)Mild winters, cool summers and rain all year describe which climate?
  1. Mediterranean
  2. Cool temperate oceanic
  3. Tropical rainforest
(b)Why is the west of Ireland wetter than the east?
  1. The west gets more hours of sunshine
  2. The east is much closer to the Equator
  3. Moist Atlantic winds rise over hills
(c)Why is it colder on top of Carrauntoohil than at sea level?
  1. Temperature falls as altitude rises
  2. There is less wind on the summit
  3. Mountain tops are farther from the sun
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(a) Cool temperate oceanic

(b) Moist Atlantic winds rise over hills

(c) Temperature falls as altitude rises

Your turn: Common Level questions on Climate.

Common Level

Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q7A
2024Q5A, Q5B
2023Not asked
2022Q9A

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Climate questions

Climate, 2 marks

The North Atlantic Drift keeps Irish winters mild because it is a?

  1. Cold polar wind
  2. Dry desert wind
  3. Warm ocean current
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Warm ocean current

This current carries warm water from the Gulf of Mexico. Winds crossing it pick up heat, so Irish winters are milder than other places at the same latitude, e.g. Labrador.

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