Lesson Y8-U03-L09

Y8-U03-L09 Development in Action: Rwanda and Bangladesh Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 9

20 questions

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The 20 questions

  1. Which continent is Rwanda on?

    • Asia
    • Europe
    • Africa
    • South America

  2. Which continent is Bangladesh on?

    • Asia
    • Oceania
    • Europe
    • Africa

  3. Which of these countries is landlocked?

    • Rwanda
    • Both are landlocked
    • Neither is landlocked
    • Bangladesh

  4. Which sea or bay lies beside Bangladesh?

    • The North Sea
    • The Bay of Bengal
    • The Red Sea
    • The Caspian Sea

  5. What does 'literacy rate' measure?

    • The percentage of children who finish primary school
    • The number of schools for every 1,000 children
    • The percentage of adults who can read and write
    • The average number of years a baby is expected to live

  6. What is a case study in geography?

    • A map showing rainfall across a whole region
    • A real example studied in detail to learn from it
    • A made-up country used in a test, to check knowledge
    • A list of every country on one continent

  7. What is the garment industry?

    • Shops that sell clothing only to tourists visiting the area for holidays
    • Farms that grow cotton for export only, sent abroad to be processed
    • Factories that make cars for the home market, sold to local buyers
    • Factories that make clothes to sell, often to other countries

  8. Rwanda is nicknamed what?

    • The land of a thousand islands
    • The land of a thousand hills
    • The land of a thousand rivers
    • The land of a thousand deserts

  9. Rwanda's HDI is 0.55 and Bangladesh's is 0.67. What is the gap between them?

    • 0.02
    • 0.12
    • 1.22
    • 0.22

  10. Life expectancy is about 67 years in Rwanda and 74 years in Bangladesh. What is the difference?

    • 17 years
    • 7 years
    • 141 years
    • 3 years

  11. GDP per person is about US$1,000 in Rwanda and US$2,700 in Bangladesh. What is the gap?

    • US$3,700
    • US$2,700
    • US$1,200
    • US$1,700

  12. Which is a fair way to compare Rwanda and Bangladesh?

    • Compare the national flags of each country
    • Compare one indicator for Rwanda and a different one for Bangladesh
    • Compare the same indicator, such as life expectancy, for both countries
    • Compare only the country with the bigger garment industry

  13. Who has mostly gained paid jobs from Bangladesh's garment industry?

    • Retired farmers only
    • Government officials only
    • Women
    • Children only

  14. Which of these is one way Rwanda has invested to develop?

    • Building its whole economy around a single coastal port
    • Closing all its schools to save money
    • Investing in schools and stable government
    • Banning all tourism and business

  15. Which best describes microloans in Bangladesh?

    • Small loans that help families start businesses and lift their incomes
    • Taxes placed on garment exports, collected at the port each year
    • Large gifts that never need to be repaid, given by foreign donors
    • Free land given out by the government to families in rural areas

  16. Why is Rwanda's landlocked position a challenge for its development?

    • It has too many ports for ships to use, so its harbours are always crowded
    • It is surrounded by a sea that stops all trade, so no goods can leave it
    • It has no coastline, so it relies on neighbouring countries' routes to reach the sea
    • It cannot have any towns near its borders, so its cities lie far inland

  17. Evaluate which factor mattered most to a country's progress: government, geography or industry.

    • A justified view that stable government matters greatly, but geography and industry also shape outcomes
    • Government is irrelevant once a country has any coastline, since the sea decides all
    • Geography alone decides everything, so nothing else matters at all for a country's development path
    • Only industry matters, because government has no role in shaping how a country develops

  18. Why might copying another country's exact development plan not work?

    • Every country has the same geography and history, so development plans always match
    • Each country has different geography, history and people, so plans must fit local conditions
    • Plans only work in countries that share a border, so copying them is limited
    • Copying development plans is illegal under international rules, so it is never allowed

  19. Explain how Rwanda's landlocked position might shape its development plan.

    • It cannot trade at all, so its plan can only rely on aid from other countries
    • It must build a major port before any other development can start in the country
    • It may focus on services, tourism and digital technology, which rely less on sea trade
    • It has no reason to plan because it is landlocked and so cannot grow at all

  20. Which conclusion is best supported by the Rwanda and Bangladesh data?

    • Both countries are now equally developed on every indicator
    • Bangladesh has made no progress since 1990, while Rwanda has progressed fully
    • Both raised development strongly from a low base, but with different strengths
    • Rwanda's HDI is higher than Bangladesh's, so Rwanda is more developed overall

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