Lesson Y8-U04-L09

Y8-U04-L09 Connected World: Trade, the Belt and Road, and the UK Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 10

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U04-L09, Connected World: Trade, the Belt and Road, and the UK: 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 trade mean?

    • Moving rivers into new channels to change the shape of the land
    • Buying and selling goods and services between places or countries
    • Building roads across mountains and through difficult valleys to reach remote towns and villages
    • Counting the people living in a city and recording their ages

  2. What is an import?

    • A road that links two cities together and carries heavy traffic
    • A tax on people who work abroad and send money home
    • A good a country buys in from another country
    • A good a country sells to another country

  3. Which term describes goods that a country sells to other countries?

    • A good a country sells out to other countries
    • A good a country buys in from abroad, not sold out
    • A ship that carries passengers only, across the sea
    • A factory built inside a city centre near the shops

  4. A phone made in China and bought in the UK is what for the UK?

    • Neither, because phones are not traded between countries
    • An import into the UK
    • A tourist souvenir bought on a holiday abroad
    • An export from the UK

  5. Which of these is an export from the UK?

    • Phones bought from China
    • T-shirts sent from India
    • Clothes sent from Bangladesh to British shops
    • Cars sold to India

  6. What does China mainly send to the UK?

    • Only food and farm produce grown across the countryside
    • Only oil from the Himalayas, pumped from deep wells
    • Clothes and raw cotton only, with no other goods
    • Manufactured goods such as phones, laptops and toys

  7. Which thing does India send to the UK that is not a physical object?

    • Wheat from river plains, grown by farmers each year
    • Oil from the Indian Ocean, pumped from offshore rigs
    • Digital services such as IT support
    • Coal from northern mines, shipped out in large cargoes

  8. Which goods does the UK send back to China and India?

    • Cars, machinery, medicines and university places
    • Phones and laptops made in British factories for export
    • Clothes and toys sold in shops across the country
    • Solar panels and batteries made in British workshops

  9. A laptop travels by ship from Shanghai to the UK. Which canal does it pass through?

    • The Panama Canal
    • The Manchester Ship Canal
    • The Suez Canal
    • The Corinth Canal

  10. Cotton T-shirts travel from Mumbai to the UK by sea. Which ocean do they cross first?

    • The Pacific Ocean
    • The Arctic Ocean
    • The Atlantic Ocean
    • The Indian Ocean

  11. Which UK port is named as the country's largest container port?

    • Hull
    • Dover
    • Felixstowe
    • Liverpool

  12. What does the 'Road' in the Belt and Road Initiative refer to?

    • New roads across land towards Europe, built alongside new rail lines
    • Bridges built across rivers in India
    • Motorway traffic systems in China's big cities
    • New ports and sea routes across the oceans

  13. Which example is a sea route part of the Belt and Road Initiative?

    • A new deep-sea port in Sri Lanka
    • A railway across Central Asia, linking China with Europe by land
    • A road across the Himalayas
    • A canal dug through Russia to link two seas

  14. A freight train from Yiwu in China can reach London in about how long?

    • 18 weeks
    • 18 hours
    • 18 months
    • 18 days

  15. A UK company sends its customer support calls to India. What type of trade link is this?

    • A tourist visit to see the sights and meet the people there
    • A physical trade of coal, shipped in large cargo vessels
    • A service trade link, using digital and IT services
    • A shipment of cars sent across the ocean each month

  16. Which is a benefit of trade with China and India for UK shoppers?

    • Fewer goods on the shop shelves across the country
    • Cheaper goods and more choice
    • Higher prices for every product in every shop
    • Less choice for families and fewer products to buy

  17. Which is a risk of depending on goods from far away?

    • A blocked route or a dispute can cut off supplies
    • Prices never change at all, even when costs rise sharply
    • Goods always arrive on the same day, so there are no delays
    • Shops never need to stock anything because goods arrive automatically

  18. Why are the goods of China and India connected to daily life in the UK?

    • They reach UK homes as phones, clothes and medicines, often by ship, plane or internet
    • Only tourists use their products when they visit the UK each year
    • They never reach the UK at all, because trade is stopped by law and no goods can cross the border
    • They are sold only inside China and India, never exported abroad

  19. What is globalisation?

    • The way places worldwide are becoming more connected through trade and travel
    • The growth of a single city in one country over a long time
    • The loss of all trade links between countries in a single year
    • The movement of rivers into new valleys during long periods of change, which also changes the land

  20. Which statement best weighs up the Belt and Road Initiative?

    • It can speed up trade and build infrastructure, but borrowing and dependence on China are risks
    • It only helps China and never the countries where it builds anything
    • It is a plan to stop all trade across Asia by building walls and gates
    • It has no benefits or risks for any country at all, because the plans never reach the ground in any region of Asia

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