Lesson Y8-U04-L05

Y8-U04-L05 Managing Population: China's Policy Story Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 10

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Lesson Y8-U04-L05, Managing Population: China's Policy Story: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 10: Year 8: Asia in Focus: China and India, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does the birth rate measure?

    • The number of people who die each year per 1,000 of the population
    • The number of people moving into a country each year from abroad
    • The total population of a country measured in millions of people
    • The number of babies born per 1,000 people each year

  2. What is a population policy?

    • A plan to build new rivers and canals across a country's whole landscape and cities
    • A survey asking people which languages they speak at home each year
    • A rule that sets the price of food in shops and markets each season
    • A government rule that tries to change how fast a population grows

  3. In what year did China's one-child policy begin?

    • 1997
    • 1959
    • 2016
    • 1979

  4. In 2016 China changed its rule to allow what?

    • No children at all, which was a rule for a short time
    • Only boys in each family, as a rule set by the government
    • Two children per family
    • Unlimited children with no rewards or fines for any family

  5. Roughly how many children did Chinese women have each, on average, in the 1960s?

    • About 12
    • About 2
    • About 1
    • About 6

  6. China's birth rate in 1970 was about how many per 1,000 people?

    • About 33 per 1,000
    • About 120 per 1,000
    • About 6 per 1,000 in 2023
    • About 8 per 1,000

  7. Which reward was offered to families with only one child?

    • Extra taxes on the family's income each year
    • A fine for each extra child the family has
    • Compulsory moves to rural villages for every family
    • Better housing or extra pay for the family

  8. Which is a punishment for having extra children under the policy?

    • Free schooling for every child in the family, paid by the state
    • Extra pay each month for the family and a bigger flat
    • Better housing for the family and a higher monthly income
    • A fine, or losing rewards such as housing or pay

  9. What is a gender imbalance?

    • When a country has more older people than young people in the population
    • When boys and girls are taught in separate schools in the same area
    • When a country has many more men than women, or the other way round
    • When the birth rate is higher than the death rate in the country

  10. What is an ageing population?

    • A population where every person is under ten years old and growing
    • A population with no births at all for a whole year in the country
    • A large and growing share of older people in a country
    • A population that moves to a new country each year in large numbers

  11. China's birth rate fell from about 37 per 1,000 in 1960 to about 6 by 2023. What does this show?

    • The birth rate doubled between 1960 and 2023 because of new policy
    • The birth rate fell sharply over the period
    • The birth rate rose steadily every year from 1960 to 2023
    • The birth rate stayed exactly the same across the whole period

  12. Which is a positive consequence of slower population growth in China?

    • Fewer mouths to feed, easing pressure on food and jobs
    • A fast-ageing population with too few young workers to support it
    • Millions more men than women, creating a serious gender imbalance
    • Some baby girls not being kept by families who wanted boys

  13. Which is a negative consequence of the one-child policy?

    • Less pressure on food supplies in the years after 1979
    • Fewer mouths to feed in the short term for families
    • Slower growth in the population, which eased pressure on schools
    • A gender imbalance with many more men than women

  14. Why did China relax its one-child policy in 2016?

    • Leaders wanted to increase the number of older people in the country
    • Too few young workers were available to support a fast-ageing population
    • Too many children were being born each year and schools were full
    • Families had asked to pay higher fines for having more children than the rules allowed

  15. After 2016 couples could have two children, but births kept falling. What best explains this?

    • Couples were forced by law to have more children than they wanted
    • Migrants were stopping births by moving into the cities
    • Many families chose to have fewer children anyway
    • Hospitals closed in every city, so families had no care

  16. Which statement uses the birth rate data correctly?

    • The birth rate was about 8 per 1,000 in 1970 and rose to about 33 by 2020 again
    • The birth rate was 100 per 1,000 in 1970 and zero by the year 2020
    • The birth rate never changed between 1960 and 2020 in any region
    • The birth rate was about 33 per 1,000 in 1970 and about 8 in 2020

  17. Why did China's leaders worry about population growth in the 1970s?

    • The population was shrinking too fast, and many cities were emptying out across the country
    • Too few children were going to school, so schools were closing
    • Population was rising faster than food, homes and schools could keep up
    • Young people were leaving the country in large numbers each year

  18. Why is a falling birth rate both a success and a long-term problem for China?

    • It increased food supplies but caused more floods in the big cities
    • It slowed growth, but it leaves fewer young workers for an ageing population
    • It ended all gender differences in the population across the whole country and every city
    • It raised the number of workers and cut the number of older people

  19. Which judgement best weighs the evidence on China's policy?

    • It was a complete failure with no benefit for food or jobs anywhere
    • It had no effect on birth rates whatever, in any region at any time
    • It had only positive effects and no costs at all for any family, school, worker or region across the whole country
    • It slowed growth and eased pressure on food, but caused a gender imbalance and an ageing population

  20. How did India's approach to managing its population differ from China's?

    • India's approach was identical to China's one-child policy in every detail, including fines and rewards for families
    • India banned every family from having more than one child by law
    • India has never tried to manage its population at all, in any way
    • India relied on education and family-planning programmes rather than a strict one-child law

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