Lesson Y8-U04-L08

Y8-U04-L08 China's Rise: From Factory of the World to Tech Power Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 10

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U04-L08, China's Rise: From Factory of the World to Tech Power: 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 GDP measure?

    • The number of people born in a country each year, per 1,000
    • The total value of everything a country makes and sells in a year
    • The total length of roads in a country, measured in kilometres
    • The average height of a country's population, measured in centimetres for adults only

  2. What is an export?

    • A tax on goods bought by tourists visiting a country
    • A worker who moves from one city to another to find a job
    • A factory built on the coast to make goods for local shops and customers nearby
    • A good or service that one country sells to another country

  3. What does manufacturing mean?

    • Digging minerals out of the ground in mines and quarries
    • Growing crops on farms and in fields across the countryside
    • Making goods in factories, such as clothes, phones and toys
    • Selling goods in shops to customers in towns and cities

  4. On a line graph, what does a rising line show?

    • The value is growing over time
    • The value is falling over time
    • The value stays the same all the time across the years
    • The height of the land in that place, measured above sea level

  5. What is meant by China being called the 'factory of the world'?

    • Growing mainly cotton for export
    • Mining the world's gold every year
    • Selling mainly tourist holidays abroad
    • Manufacturing much of the world's goods

  6. Roughly how many people live in China?

    • 14 million
    • 14 billion
    • 140 million
    • 1.4 billion

  7. A value rises from 10 to 20. What is the percentage change?

    • 10%
    • 100%
    • 20%
    • 200%

  8. China's GDP rose from $6 trillion to $15 trillion. What is the percentage change?

    • 9%
    • 250%
    • 150%
    • 60%

  9. A factory's output rose from 100 to 250 phones a day. What is the percentage change?

    • 250%
    • 400%
    • 50%
    • 150%

  10. Which city began as a Special Economic Zone and is now a major tech megacity?

    • Shenzhen
    • Chennai
    • Mumbai
    • Dharavi

  11. Why were goods made in China so cheap in the 1990s?

    • Foreign firms being banned from China and its coastal cities
    • Low wages and millions of workers
    • Free goods given out by the government to every family
    • Goods made only from recycled metal collected from the sea

  12. By 2010, roughly what share of the world's air conditioners did China make?

    • About 8%
    • About 80%
    • About 30%
    • About 100%

  13. Which of these is a high-value product China now makes?

    • Raw cotton picked by hand from farms
    • Hand-made wooden toys sold in local markets
    • Electric cars and solar panels
    • Coal dug from shallow pits only

  14. Why is China moving away from low-cost factory work?

    • Wages rose, so simple low-cost factory work became less profitable
    • Workers stopped wanting to earn any money from their jobs
    • Tech goods are easier to make than toys, and cheaper to sell
    • Factories were banned by law in every city across the country, so all production moved abroad

  15. Which example belongs to the factory stage of China's growth?

    • University research into new batteries and solar cells
    • Developing high-tech phones for export to richer markets
    • Designing advanced electric cars in research centres
    • Making cheap toys with low wages

  16. Shenzhen grew from about 30,000 people in 1980 to over 17 million today. Roughly how many times bigger is it now?

    • About 60 times
    • About 6 times
    • About 570 times
    • About 5,700 times

  17. Which factor best explains China's rapid growth from the 1990s?

    • Farming alone, with no exports and no foreign trade at all
    • Oil discoveries in the Himalayas, which were sold to other countries across the world
    • Foreign investment, cheap labour and exports of manufactured goods
    • Tourism only, with no factories and few shops in the cities

  18. China's GDP line rises much more steeply after 2000 than before. What does this show?

    • The economy grew faster, with bigger yearly gains
    • GDP fell steadily from 2000 onwards as factories closed
    • The line shows temperature rather than money, measured in degrees
    • The economy stopped growing after 2000, and its gains fell away

  19. Why is China's shift from cheap goods to high technology important for its future?

    • It raises the value of its goods and reduces reliance on low wages
    • It guarantees that wages will fall again in the coming decade
    • It means China will stop exporting goods completely to the rest of the world and close its ports
    • It removes all pollution from its cities at once, overnight

  20. Which statement best judges whether China's growth came at a cost?

    • It only brought costs and no benefits to the country or its people
    • It brought no costs at all to workers or the environment anywhere, and everyone shared the gains equally
    • It brought huge gains, but also pollution, long hours and a wide rich-poor gap
    • It made everyone equally rich with no problems for anyone at all

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