Lesson Y7-U05-L09

Y7-U05-L09 Africa Rising: A Continent of Opportunity Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 5

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U05-L09, Africa Rising: A Continent of Opportunity: 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 innovation mean?

    • A map that shows how a language has spread across the continent over many centuries
    • A job that moves people from one city to another
    • A new idea or invention that solves a problem in a better way
    • A copy of an old idea that is sold in a new market

  2. Which country invented the M-Pesa mobile money system?

    • Kenya
    • Nigeria
    • Ghana
    • Egypt

  3. What is mobile money?

    • A loan from a bank used to buy a new phone
    • Sending and saving money using a mobile phone instead of a bank
    • Coins that are stored inside a phone case and used to pay bills at the local market
    • A payment made with a credit card at a shop

  4. What problem did mobile money help to solve?

    • Many people lived far from a bank and needed a safe way to pay and save
    • Phones were too expensive to buy anywhere in Africa
    • Banks were charging too little for loans, so people could easily afford to open accounts
    • People were not allowed to send money to their families

  5. What is an enquiry in geography?

    • Measuring the temperature of a place each day
    • Asking people to vote on a decision at a meeting
    • Drawing a map of a place from memory after a long holiday away from home
    • Answering a question by gathering and using evidence

  6. What does economy mean?

    • A plan for building new roads across a region
    • All the buying, selling and making of things in a country
    • The land used only for growing food, with no roads, schools or shops anywhere nearby
    • The total number of people who live in one city

  7. How does Africa's population age compare with other continents?

    • Africa has the world's youngest population
    • Africa has very few people under the age of 20
    • Africa has the same age structure as Europe
    • Africa has the world's oldest population

  8. Which city is the capital of Rwanda?

    • Lagos, Nigeria
    • Cairo
    • Kigali
    • Accra

  9. A farmer far from any bank uses mobile money to receive payment. Which problem does this solve?

    • Growing crops with less water
    • Getting paid in gold coins that are hard to carry
    • Avoiding taxes on all farm produce
    • Getting paid safely without travelling to a bank

  10. Which of these is evidence of innovation in Africa?

    • A river that floods every spring and carries mud across the farmland each year
    • A factory closing because it has too few workers
    • Rwanda using drones to deliver medicines to remote areas
    • A city that has a traffic jam every morning

  11. Solar power lights a home that is far from the electricity grid. What does this show?

    • An example of the single story of poverty, which shows only the problems in African cities
    • Evidence that African homes have no lights at all
    • A return to old ways that ignore modern technology
    • A new idea that solves a problem for people far from power lines

  12. An enquiry asks: Is Africa changing? Which piece of evidence is the strongest?

    • Cities growing fast and new businesses opening
    • A single photo of a rural village with no electricity
    • A map of Africa's rivers drawn in 1900
    • A story about one tourist who got lost on safari

  13. Which statement best matches the enquiry skill taught in this lesson?

    • Write the conclusion first and skip the evidence
    • Read the question, gather evidence, then conclude using the evidence
    • Copy a single source word for word without checking whether it is accurate or fair
    • Choose an answer first, then find any facts that support it

  14. A pupil writes: Africa is changing because its economies are growing. What does this sentence do?

    • It makes a claim and gives a reason, using the word because
    • It gives a personal opinion about the weather in the summer holidays and in the city
    • It lists two unrelated facts about two countries
    • It describes a map without saying anything about change

  15. Which change would most help young people in Nairobi?

    • New businesses and mobile money services that create jobs and make payments easier
    • A ban on all phones, so people use only cash
    • A move of all companies out of Nairobi to a quiet village far from the main roads
    • Fewer roads, so fewer people can reach the city

  16. Africa has many young people. Which opportunity does this bring?

    • A fall in the number of new ideas each year
    • A large workforce that can start businesses and bring new ideas
    • A shortage of workers in almost every sector
    • A reduction in the need for new jobs because machines will do all the work instead

  17. Which statement best evaluates the single story of Africa?

    • It is accurate because Africa has no cities at all
    • It is fair because it comes from one trusted source only
    • It ignores the many changes and innovations, so it gives a partial and unfair picture
    • It is accurate because Africa is poor everywhere, and every country faces the same serious problems

  18. Why might a country's mobile money system be a sign of wider change?

    • It shows people adopting new technology and the economy becoming more connected
    • It shows that people have stopped using phones altogether
    • It shows that the population is shrinking rapidly, so fewer young people can start businesses
    • It shows that all banks have closed in the country

  19. Which conclusion is best supported by the evidence in this lesson?

    • Africa is only changing in its wildlife, not its people
    • Africa is changing only because of one tourist site, which shows that the rest of the continent is unchanged
    • Africa is not changing, because one village has no electricity
    • Africa is changing, because growing cities, businesses and inventions show new development

  20. Why should an enquiry use several pieces of evidence rather than just one?

    • One example can be unrepresentative, so several pieces give a more reliable answer
    • Only one piece is allowed, to keep the answer short and easy to mark in class each week
    • Evidence is needed only for the first part of an enquiry
    • Several pieces are needed because one piece is always false

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