Lesson Y8-U06-L10

Y8-U06-L10 Year 8 Synthesis: Designing a Sustainable Future Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 12

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U06-L10, Year 8 Synthesis: Designing a Sustainable Future: 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 does sustainability mean?

    • Keeping every resource locked away from future generations
    • Using as much energy as possible while prices stay low
    • Meeting our needs today without stopping future people meeting theirs
    • Building the biggest possible power station in each region

  2. What are the three pillars of sustainability?

    • Social, economic and environmental
    • Cheap, fast and reliable
    • Physical, political and historical
    • Coal, gas and wind

  3. Which pillar asks whether a choice protects nature and natural systems?

    • Political and historical, the two pillars that judge whether a choice is fair
    • Environmental
    • Economic
    • Social

  4. Which pillar asks whether people can afford a choice and whether it supports jobs?

    • Historical
    • Social
    • Environmental
    • Economic

  5. What is a trade-off?

    • A choice where gaining one good thing means losing another
    • A method of measuring the carbon in a fuel
    • A price set by the government for every unit of energy
    • A deal in which two companies share a single power station

  6. What is a stakeholder in a resource decision?

    • A map showing the coastline of a region
    • A type of fossil fuel burned in a power station to make electricity for the national grid
    • A person or group affected by a decision, or who can influence it
    • A worker who installs solar panels on a roof

  7. What does it mean to justify a decision?

    • Give clear reasons and evidence to support the decision
    • Choose the cheapest option available in the local shop
    • Ask a question to test whether a claim is true
    • Draw a chart to show each choice in colour

  8. Scores out of 10. Wind: social 7, economic 6, environmental 9. Coal: social 4, economic 7, environmental 2. What is wind's environmental score?

    • 6
    • 7
    • 2
    • 9

  9. Scores out of 10. Wind: social 7, economic 6, environmental 9. Coal: social 4, economic 7, environmental 2. What is coal's environmental score?

    • 7
    • 9
    • 4
    • 2

  10. Coal's scores out of 10: social 4, economic 7, environmental 2. On which pillar did coal score best?

    • Environmental, with 2
    • Economic, with 6
    • Economic, with 7
    • Social, with 4

  11. Coal scores 7 on the economic pillar and wind scores 6, both out of 10. Which scored higher on the economic pillar?

    • Wind
    • Coal
    • They tie exactly
    • Neither was scored on it

  12. Which of these is an example of a social benefit?

    • A new factory increases the town's income
    • A solar farm creates 150 local jobs
    • Cheaper heating helps poorer families stay warm
    • A wind farm cuts the town's carbon emissions

  13. Which of these is an example of an environmental benefit?

    • A new factory boosts the town's income
    • A solar farm creates 150 local jobs
    • Cheaper power helps poorer families
    • Recycling water protects the local river

  14. What is a trade-off in building a big dam?

    • It makes clean power but can flood farmland and homes
    • It burns coal to produce its electricity supply
    • It makes no power but keeps all farmland dry
    • It creates no jobs and no clean energy at all

  15. Why are most resource choices described as trade-offs rather than perfect solutions?

    • They always cost nothing and help every pillar equally
    • They are only ever decided by a single government minister
    • They can be ignored when the weather is calm and sunny
    • They help some pillars but harm others, so something is always given up

  16. A town wants to cut its carbon but still keep costs reasonable. Which choice weighs the three pillars best?

    • Coal only: cheapest now but the lowest environmental score
    • A wind farm: strong environmental score and a reasonable economic score
    • Building a dam that floods all nearby farmland and homes
    • Doing nothing, since every energy choice is equally unsustainable

  17. In a PEEL paragraph, what do the two E steps stand for?

    • Evaluate the entire history of the town
    • Evidence and Explain, which back up the point
    • End with a list of extra facts
    • Explain only the strongest opinion

  18. Which is the strongest justification for building a wind farm?

    • It is the most popular choice on social media this week
    • It scores 10 out of 10 on every pillar, so no trade-off exists
    • It scores well on environmental and economic pillars, so on balance it is more sustainable
    • It needs no building at all, so there are no costs, no delays and no need for any planning permission

  19. Why does a stakeholder matter in a resource decision?

    • Because they always pay the full cost of every power station
    • Because they decide which chart will be drawn for the class
    • Because they can stop all decisions made by the town council
    • Because they are affected by the decision and can influence the outcome

  20. A choice scores well on the social and economic pillars but poorly on the environmental pillar. Is it fully sustainable?

    • Yes, because two strong pillars outweigh any environmental harm
    • Yes, because the environmental pillar is always the least important
    • Yes, because the economic score is the only measure that counts
    • Not fully, because a sustainable choice must score well on all three pillars

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