Lesson Y7-U05-L04

Y7-U05-L04 A Diverse People: Cultures and Cities Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 5

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U05-L04, A Diverse People: Cultures and Cities: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 5: Year 7: Africa: A Continent of Diversity, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does the word 'culture' mean?

    • A type of rain that falls in the mountains, most often in the cold months
    • The way a group of people lives, including language, food, music and customs
    • The number of farms in a district, counted each year by local officials
    • The height of a city above the sea, measured in metres on the local map

  2. Which of these is part of a place's culture?

    • Language spoken by the people
    • Height of the land above sea level
    • Average rainfall in millimetres
    • Distance to the nearest river

  3. Which word means countryside?

    • Coastal
    • Central
    • Rural
    • Urban

  4. Which word means a town or a city?

    • Arid
    • Rural
    • Urban
    • Tropical

  5. Roughly how many languages are spoken across Africa?

    • Fewer than 10
    • Fewer than 100
    • Over 1,000
    • Exactly 54

  6. In which part of Africa is Nairobi, the capital of Kenya?

    • Southern Africa
    • East Africa
    • North Africa
    • West Africa

  7. In which part of Africa is Mali?

    • Central Africa
    • East Africa
    • North Africa
    • West Africa

  8. Which job is common in a big city such as Nairobi?

    • Farming crops in open fields
    • Herding animals across the savanna
    • Working in offices, shops or technology
    • Fishing from a small village boat

  9. Which job is common in rural Mali?

    • Working in a tech business park
    • Running a large city bus network
    • Farming or trading at a local market
    • Working on a tall office tower

  10. A busy city street is crowded ____ a village is quiet. Which linking word completes the comparison?

    • unless
    • because
    • whereas
    • although

  11. Which is the best statement about everyday life in Africa?

    • Everyone in Africa lives in exactly the same way, in the same homes and jobs
    • Life differs between cities and villages, and between countries
    • Everyone in Africa lives in a desert, far from towns, rivers and farmland
    • Everyone in Africa works on a farm, growing the same crops for their families

  12. Which of these is a rural feature?

    • Open grassland with a few homes
    • A busy city market full of stalls, shoppers and street traders all day
    • Tall glass offices in a busy business district with lifts and revolving doors
    • A tower block in Lagos, rising many floors above the crowded city streets

  13. Why does city life often feel very different from village life?

    • Cities have more people living close together, with more jobs and services
    • Cities have no buildings or roads at all, so people live in open fields
    • Villages have far more shops and offices than cities, which are always quiet
    • Cities are always in the countryside, away from people, in quiet green valleys

  14. Which is the best reason it would be unfair to call one African place 'better' than another?

    • All places in Africa are exactly the same in every way, so comparing them is pointless
    • Places differ in what they offer, so each has its own strengths and ways of life
    • Only cities have people who are happy, while villages are full of sad residents
    • Villages have no culture at all to compare, so they cannot be judged fairly anyway

  15. Which pair correctly matches a place with its type of life?

    • Nairobi: desert; rural Mali: rainforest
    • Nairobi: urban tech hub; rural Mali: farming and local markets
    • Nairobi: rural farming; rural Mali: urban tech hub
    • Nairobi: rural village; rural Mali: tower blocks

  16. Timbuktu in Mali is famous for what?

    • Its tall glass office towers, rising above the busy city centre each day
    • Its ancient manuscripts and books of learning
    • Its fishing fleet on the Atlantic, which sails out from a busy coastal harbour
    • Its tech business park, which houses many modern offices and high-speed networks

  17. Which statement shows why Mali is more than just farming?

    • It has a rich history of learning, books and scholarship
    • It has only desert and no people, so visitors see nothing but sand and rock
    • It has no history at all, so there is nothing about it worth studying or visiting
    • It only has tall office blocks, with no schools, museums or old buildings at all

  18. Which comparison sentence correctly uses 'whereas'?

    • Nairobi is busy, whereas Nairobi is quiet and calm in the early morning
    • Whereas a village is busy with tower blocks, its streets full of office workers
    • Whereas Nairobi and Mali are the same place, with the same busy city streets
    • Nairobi is busy, whereas rural Mali is quieter with more open space

  19. Explain why two people in the same country might live very different daily lives.

    • Because everyone in a country has exactly the same job and home
    • Because they may live in different places, such as a city or a rural village
    • Because daily life is decided only by the weather
    • Because countries have no cities, towns or villages

  20. Suggest why a city such as Nairobi keeps growing while some villages stay small.

    • Villages are always too cold for people to live in
    • Cities offer more jobs and services, which pull people in
    • Cities have no jobs, so people move there to rest
    • Villages are closed by law, so people cannot live there

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