Lesson Y8-U06-L09

Y8-U06-L09 Resources in My Life: A Local Enquiry Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 12

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U06-L09, Resources in My Life: A Local Enquiry: 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 the very first stage of a geographical enquiry?

    • Collecting data from other people's websites
    • Writing a conclusion from the evidence
    • Setting a clear question to investigate
    • Drawing a bar chart of the results

  2. What is primary data?

    • Information you collect yourself, such as your own readings or counts
    • Information found in a textbook written by another author
    • The most important facts from a newspaper article
    • Data collected by a government and published online each year

  3. In what order do the four stages of the enquiry cycle come?

    • Question, collect, present, conclude
    • Present, conclude, question, collect
    • Conclude, present, collect, question
    • Collect, question, conclude, present

  4. In this enquiry, what does 'sustainability' mean?

    • Buying the cheapest resources available in local shops
    • Using as much water and energy as possible each day
    • Replacing every fossil fuel with coal in every home
    • Using resources in a way that does not run them out for the future

  5. What is 'consumption' in the context of resource use?

    • The number of people who live in one household
    • The amount of a resource, like water or energy, that you use up
    • The speed at which a river flows past a town
    • The amount of money a family spends on food each week

  6. Why must everyone use the same units when collecting data?

    • So the data can be kept secret from classmates
    • So the data can be compared fairly
    • So the pupil can finish the enquiry more quickly
    • So the tally sheet can be printed in colour

  7. Which unit is most suitable for measuring the amount of water used?

    • Kilowatt-hours
    • Degrees Celsius
    • Metres per second
    • Litres

  8. Which unit is most suitable for measuring electricity use?

    • Kilograms
    • Litres
    • Kilowatt-hours (kWh)
    • Degrees Celsius, the unit used to measure how much electricity a household uses each month

  9. On a bar chart of resource use, what goes along the bottom axis?

    • The resource uses or activities being compared
    • The number of litres used each day
    • The name of the pupil who collected the data
    • The percentage of the total for each bar

  10. A pupil records 50 L for a shower, 36 L for the toilet, 25 L for washing and 9 L for drinks. What is the daily total?

    • 140 litres
    • 130 litres
    • 110 litres
    • 120 litres

  11. Using the same figures (shower 50 L out of a 120 L total), what percentage is the shower?

    • About 36 percent
    • About 30 percent
    • About 42 percent
    • About 50 percent

  12. What percentage of the 120-litre total is the toilet's 36 litres?

    • 45 percent
    • 20 percent
    • 30 percent
    • 36 percent

  13. A pupil uses 50, 30 and 20 litres. What percentage of the 100-litre total is the 50-litre use?

    • 60 percent
    • 50 percent
    • 40 percent
    • 25 percent

  14. A pupil's shower uses 50 litres and drinks use 9 litres each day. How many more litres does the shower use?

    • 49 litres
    • 31 litres
    • 41 litres
    • 59 litres

  15. A pupil's daily water use: shower 50 litres, toilet 36 litres, washing 25 litres, drinks 9 litres. Which activity used the most water?

    • Drinks
    • Toilet
    • Washing
    • Shower

  16. Which method is most reliable for showing which resource use is largest in a set of data?

    • A bar chart with a sensible scale and labelled axes
    • A single number with no label on any axis
    • A drawing of the pupil's favourite room
    • A list of uses in random order with no units

  17. Why is collecting your own data better than guessing about your resource use?

    • It proves that every household in the UK uses 140 litres a day
    • It guarantees that your own use is always sustainable
    • It gives real evidence, so your conclusion is based on fact and not guesswork
    • It means you do not need to label the axes of your chart

  18. Which conclusion is best supported by the data?

    • I think I use a lot of water, and it is probably not sustainable
    • The enquiry shows that all water use is always wasteful
    • Everyone in the country uses water in exactly the same way
    • My showering was 42 percent of my 120-litre daily total, so it is my biggest use

  19. Why is judging sustainability from one person's data limited?

    • One person always uses more water than a whole class does
    • Single-person data cannot be shown on any kind of chart
    • One person's habits may not represent the whole group, so the evidence is limited
    • Sustainability only applies to countries, never to individuals, so single-person data is always meaningless

  20. Which change would most likely reduce the largest use, the shower, in this enquiry?

    • Filling the toilet cistern to the top with extra water
    • Washing clothes more often on a hot cycle each day
    • Taking shorter showers, which reduces the litres used each time
    • Brushing teeth for longer while the tap is running

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