Lesson Y8-U03-L06

Y8-U03-L06 Why Are Some Countries Less Developed? Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 9

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U03-L06, Why Are Some Countries Less Developed?: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 9: Year 8: Development and Global Inequality, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What are the three types of factor that can hold development back?

    • Physical, historical and economic
    • Economic, military and demographic
    • Physical, political and social
    • Historical, cultural and religious

  2. What does 'landlocked' mean?

    • A country with no rivers flowing through it, so its water comes from wells
    • A country surrounded entirely by the ocean, with no land border at all
    • A country with no coastline, so it cannot trade by sea on its own
    • A country with a very long coastline, facing the sea on many sides

  3. What is colonialism?

    • When one country took control of another to use its land and resources
    • When two countries share one currency, so their money is set jointly
    • When a country trades only with its neighbours, keeping its money local
    • When a rich country gives aid to a poorer one, to help its growth

  4. What is a primary product?

    • A service such as banking, tourism or teaching, sold to clients directly
    • A raw material sold unprocessed, such as coffee beans, cotton or copper ore
    • A finished good such as a phone or a car, sold in shops to customers
    • A product made in a factory from recycled metal, sold to other firms

  5. Which of these is a physical factor that can hold development back?

    • High taxes on goods exported abroad
    • Frequent drought that ruins harvests
    • Large debt repayments each year
    • Colonial borders drawn by outside powers

  6. Which of these is a historical factor that can hold development back?

    • Selling raw coffee beans abroad
    • Having been colonised until the 1960s
    • Large debt repayments each year
    • Frequent drought in the dry season

  7. Why do raw materials earn a country less money?

    • Raw materials are illegal to sell in most markets
    • Most of the value is added later, often abroad
    • Raw materials can only be sold in local markets
    • Raw materials weigh less than finished goods

  8. Which type of factor is large debt repayment?

    • Economic
    • Cultural
    • Physical
    • Historical

  9. A drought ruins harvests. Which type of factor is this?

    • Political
    • Physical
    • Historical
    • Economic

  10. A coffee farmer earns 10 cents from every US$1 of coffee, and the roaster or shop earns 60 cents. Who earns the most?

    • Everyone earns the same 33 cents
    • The coffee farmer, with 60 cents
    • The roaster or shop, with 60 cents
    • The shipper, with 60 cents

  11. A coffee farmer keeps 10 cents of every US$1 a shop charges. How much of the US$1 is passed on to other people in the chain?

    • 10 cents
    • 50 cents
    • 1 dollar
    • 90 cents

  12. A country sells coffee beans but buys back finished goods. Which factor is this mainly an example of?

    • Economic, because it earns little from raw materials
    • No factor, because trade is always fair
    • Historical, because coffee was invented long ago
    • Physical, because coffee grows in the sun

  13. Chad is landlocked. Why does this make trade harder?

    • It has no rivers, so it cannot grow crops, and farming is impossible
    • It has too many ports for ships to use, so its harbours are always full
    • It cannot easily ship goods by sea, so it relies on neighbours' routes
    • It is surrounded by ocean that blocks all roads, so goods cannot move

  14. A country is repaying large debts every year. What effect does this have on development?

    • The country's coastline becomes longer
    • Less money is left for schools and hospitals
    • More money is left for schools and hospitals
    • Its population stops growing at once

  15. Which card belongs in the 'Historical' column?

    • Landlocked, with no coastline
    • Frequent droughts ruin harvests
    • Large debt repayments each year
    • Borders drawn carelessly cause conflict

  16. Chad's HDI is 0.39 and Norway's is 0.97. Which statement is best?

    • Chad is more developed than Norway in every way
    • Chad and Norway have the same level of development
    • Chad is much less developed than Norway
    • Norway's HDI is lower than Chad's HDI

  17. Analyse why two factors acting together can be worse than either one alone.

    • Two factors always make a country richer, because each one adds directly to its national income
    • Factors only matter one at a time, so combining them changes nothing in practice for a country
    • A drought ruins harvests, and debt then stops money being spent on recovery, so the damage compounds
    • Two factors cancel each other out, so the combined effects are smaller than either one alone

  18. Evaluate whether a country can fully overcome a historical factor like colonialism.

    • Fully: colonialism only affects landlocked countries, so coastal states are unaffected
    • Never: once colonised, a country can never improve in any way at all
    • Fully: independence removes every effect of the past immediately, so nothing lingers on
    • Partly: independence and reform help, but losses of resources and institutions can last

  19. Why might a landlocked country with good rainfall still have low development?

    • Good rainfall guarantees a high HDI everywhere
    • Trade can be harder, and debt or low prices can still limit investment
    • Landlocked countries are never affected by world prices
    • Landlocked countries always have perfect rain and no hazards

  20. Explain why selling raw materials can keep a country poor even when world prices rise.

    • Raw material prices only matter to countries with a coastline, not to landlocked ones
    • Raw materials cannot be priced by the world market at all, so prices are set locally
    • Higher world prices always reduce the amount a country earns from its exports
    • Most of the value is added later abroad, so the country gets only a small share of the final price

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