Lesson Y9-U01-L01

Y9-U01-L01 What is Globalisation? Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 13

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U01-L01, What is Globalisation?: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 13: Year 9: A Globalised World: Economies, Trade and Power, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does globalisation describe?

    • Countries giving up all their trade with other nations
    • Countries drawing new borders across the same continent
    • Every country agreeing to use one single currency, with one shared bank for all trade and travel
    • Countries becoming more connected through trade, travel, money and ideas

  2. What is an 'interconnection' in geography?

    • A link that joins places, such as a trade route or the internet
    • A wall that stops goods from crossing a border
    • A map projection that stretches the poles
    • A type of climate found only near the equator, where rainfall and heat stay high all year round

  3. What term describes faster transport and communication making distant places feel closer?

    • Carrying capacity
    • Primary sector
    • Time-space compression
    • Population density

  4. Which of these is a transnational corporation?

    • A local bakery that sells bread only in one village, supplying flour from a single farm nearby every day
    • A government office that sets tax rates for one region
    • A charity that works only inside a single city
    • A large company, such as Apple or Toyota, operating in many countries

  5. In the T-shirt example, which country is the cotton grown in?

    • Bangladesh
    • The UK
    • India
    • It is not stated

  6. Which of these shows the 'shrinking world' idea?

    • A message to Australia that once took months by ship now arrives in under a second
    • A village that has not changed its trade routes in 300 years, with the same carts and roads still in use
    • A country that closes its borders to every visitor
    • A map that shows only the coastline of a continent

  7. Which two things typically flow between countries under globalisation?

    • Weather and climate zones
    • Goods and money
    • Rivers and mountains
    • Soil and rock

  8. Top everyday travel speeds: 1500s 10 mph, 1850s 65 mph, 1950s 400 mph, today 600 mph. Between which two dates did top speed rise the most?

    • Between the 1500s and the 1850s
    • Between the 1950s and today
    • Between the 1500s and today
    • Between the 1850s and the 1950s

  9. Top everyday travel speeds: 1500s 10 mph, 1850s 65 mph, 1950s 400 mph, today 600 mph. What happened to top speed after the 1850s?

    • It stayed exactly the same as in the 1500s
    • It fell steadily because trains became slower, and passengers switched back to walking between towns
    • It rose sharply, especially after the 1950s with jet planes
    • It dropped to half of its 1500s speed

  10. Why does a message to a distant country now seem to arrive 'instantly'?

    • Ships now carry messages at the speed of a jet plane
    • Internet and digital communication send information in well under a second
    • Letters are now delivered by faster horses in every country
    • Governments have stopped charging for postage across borders

  11. Why can a UK firm share files with a team in Kenya in moments?

    • Kenya and the UK share one government that approves each file
    • Files are carried on foot between offices across the two countries
    • Digital communication links people instantly and almost for free
    • The UK firm owns a private satellite that only Kenya can use

  12. Which of these is the best example of goods travelling as part of globalisation?

    • A child walking to school in her own village
    • Rainwater flowing down a hillside into a stream
    • Electronics made in China and shipped by container ship to the UK
    • A farmer selling vegetables only at a local market, with every sale recorded by the national customs office

  13. Why might electronics be shipped by container ship from China to the UK?

    • China only produces food, not any electronics
    • The two countries share the same time zone
    • Labour and factories are cheaper in China
    • The UK has no ports that can receive ships

  14. On a globalisation map, what does a link between two places usually show?

    • The height of the mountains between two places
    • The population of the two countries at exact noon
    • What flows between two places, and in which direction
    • The average rainfall over a whole year

  15. A phone uses metals, screens and chips. What does this show about globalisation?

    • Globalisation has no effect on electronic goods
    • Only one country ever makes any electronic products
    • Many countries contribute parts to a single everyday product
    • Phones are made from materials that never leave a single village

  16. What is the main purpose of a transnational corporation's global links?

    • To stop trade between the countries it works in
    • To keep all its production in one small village
    • To source, make and sell products across many countries
    • To avoid all contact with customers in other countries

  17. Why do geographers say the world has 'shrunk' when it has not got smaller?

    • Because the Earth has lost some of its land area
    • Because travel and communication now take far less time
    • Because the oceans have become much shallower
    • Because most countries have moved closer to the equator

  18. Which of these best defines globalisation in one sentence?

    • The growth of one single country to control the whole planet's trade, banks and all of its major cities
    • The end of all trade between countries around the world
    • The increasing connection of countries through trade, travel, money and ideas
    • The process of countries drawing new borders across the globe

  19. Which of these is a decision in one country that can quickly affect people far away?

    • A family choosing which breakfast cereal to buy locally
    • A village deciding to plant a tree in its own park
    • A farmer deciding to keep chickens in a back garden
    • A bank changing interest rates that affects loans overseas

  20. Which pattern would a map of global trade and communication links most likely show?

    • Every country has exactly the same number of links, so the map looks evenly coloured across all continents
    • Only places near the equator have any links to others
    • Links are found only across the Arctic Ocean
    • Wealthy, well-connected hubs such as the UK and USA have many links

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