Lesson Y8-U06-L02

Y8-U06-L02 Feeding the World: Global Food Supply Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 12

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U06-L02, Feeding the World: Global Food Supply: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 12: Year 8: Resources: Feeding and Powering the World, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is food security?

    • When a country grows the most food in the world each year, and exports the surplus to other nations
    • When food is stored for a whole year in large grain silos
    • When people can always get enough safe, healthy food to live well
    • When supermarket shelves are full on one day of the week

  2. What is a calorie?

    • A unit that measures the energy in food
    • A type of fertiliser used on farms to boost plant growth
    • A measure of how much land a farm covers in hectares
    • A unit that measures the weight of a crop at harvest time

  3. What is malnutrition?

    • A disease caused only by drinking dirty water from rivers, which is spread by insects and animals in the region
    • Poor health caused by not eating enough food or the wrong kinds of food
    • A type of soil found in deserts and dry grasslands
    • Eating too much food at a single meal during the holidays

  4. What is yield in farming?

    • The amount of food a farm produces from its land, often per hectare
    • The price paid for food at market by shoppers each week
    • The number of farms in a country and their sizes, counted each year by the government
    • The height of a crop on a farm measured at harvest

  5. About how many calories does an adult need each day?

    • About 2,100
    • About 4,500
    • About 10,000
    • About 800

  6. Which term describes a situation where people cannot get enough nutritious food regularly?

    • Food tourism
    • Food insecurity
    • Food packaging
    • Food labelling

  7. Which is a main reason many people in low-income countries lack enough food?

    • Shops that close early on Sundays
    • Fast food cheap in every town
    • Too many supermarkets open late
    • Low incomes that limit food buying

  8. India's supply is about 2,600 calories per person. Is this above or below the 2,100 needed?

    • Below
    • Cannot be known
    • Above
    • Exactly equal

  9. Chad's supply of 1,900 calories per person is:

    • Above the amount needed
    • Exactly the amount needed
    • Five times the amount needed
    • Below the amount needed

  10. What should you read first on a choropleth map?

    • The smallest country on the map, shown in the corner
    • The size of the paper, which affects how it is read
    • The key, which tells you what each colour means
    • The name of the author who drew the map for the report

  11. On a food-supply choropleth, what does a darker shade usually mean?

    • A larger country on the map
    • No data available for that country
    • Higher calorie supply
    • Lower calorie supply

  12. Which regions are usually shaded darkest on a global food-supply map?

    • The Pacific islands only, far from any continent
    • North America, Europe and Australia
    • The Sahara desert and Antarctica
    • Central Africa and parts of South Asia

  13. Which region is usually the lightest on a global food-supply map?

    • Australia and its wide grasslands
    • North America and its large farms
    • Much of sub-Saharan Africa
    • Western Europe and its supermarkets

  14. Mexico has a food supply of about 3,100 calories per person per day. How would it be shaded on a calorie map?

    • Dark, because it is well above the 2,100 needed
    • Light, because it is below 2,100 calories a day
    • Light, because Mexico is a large country in the region
    • White, because it has no data for the country at all

  15. Which of these is a physical cause of hunger?

    • War blocks roads to villages in the north
    • Drought ruins the harvest
    • Shops refuse to sell food to poor families nearby
    • Food is too expensive to buy in the local shops

  16. Which of these is a human cause of hunger?

    • Poor soil gives low yields on the hillside farms
    • Flooding destroys rice fields along the river valley
    • Drought ruins the harvest across the whole region
    • War blocks roads to villages

  17. Why can a country have enough food overall but still have hunger?

    • People never eat food, so there is none to share
    • Food is shared unevenly, and many people cannot afford it
    • Food is only grown in one small country in the world, which sends it out to the rest of the planet
    • Food supply is always too low everywhere on the planet

  18. What can a national average food figure hide?

    • Differences between rich and poor people
    • The colour of the map used in the report
    • The height of the mountains in the region above sea level
    • The name of the capital city and its population

  19. Which judgement best evaluates global food data?

    • It should be ignored because it uses colour to show the values
    • It is perfect and shows exactly who is hungry in every town and family, so no further checks are needed
    • It is useful for comparing countries, but averages can hide hunger among poorer groups
    • It is useless because it cannot show any pattern across the world

  20. Why does the world produce enough calories yet still have around 700 million hungry people?

    • People no longer need food to live in the modern world
    • Food only grows in deserts, where the soil is rich and wet
    • The world has grown too little food in total for its people, so every country is short and must import food
    • Access, poverty and distribution stop food reaching those who need it

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