Lesson Y9-U01-L02

Drivers of Globalisation: Transport, Trade and Technology Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 13

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U01-L02, Drivers of Globalisation: Transport, Trade and Technology: 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. Which three drivers of globalisation are usually identified?

    • Tourism, sport and music
    • Transport, trade and technology
    • Rainfall, wind and sunshine
    • Mining, farming and fishing

  2. What did the standard shipping container allow ships to do?

    • Goods could travel under the sea without any cables
    • Cranes could load a whole ship in hours instead of days
    • Ships could sail without any crew on board
    • Factories could be built without any workers at all

  3. In which year was the standard shipping container first widely used?

    • 1996
    • 1976
    • 1956
    • 1856

  4. What is a tariff?

    • A payment a company receives for every product it sells abroad
    • A tax a country adds to imported goods, making them dearer
    • A rule that bans all trade with neighbouring countries
    • A measure of the weight of a shipping container

  5. What does a trade bloc do to tariffs between its members?

    • It removes or lowers them, so members trade more easily
    • It adds new tariffs on goods traded between its own members
    • It doubles them to protect each member's industry
    • It ignores them, because tariffs are never charged

  6. Which of these is the best example of a trade bloc?

    • A local school council
    • A national park in Scotland
    • The EU single market
    • A private bank in one city

  7. Roughly what share of international data travels through undersea cables?

    • Exactly 100 percent with no satellites
    • About 99 percent
    • About 50 percent
    • About 9 percent

  8. Which technology lets a designer in London get a reply from a factory in Vietnam in seconds?

    • A steam train crossing the continent
    • Undersea fibre-optic cables carrying data
    • A horse-drawn postal carriage
    • A cargo ship sailing around the Cape

  9. Which port is widely described as the world's busiest container port, handling over 47 million boxes a year?

    • Rotterdam
    • Shanghai
    • London
    • Lagos

  10. World exports rose from about US$0.06 trillion in 1950 to about US$24.9 trillion in 2022. Roughly how many times bigger were they?

    • About 400 times
    • About 40 times
    • About 4,000 times
    • About 4 times

  11. World exports rose from US$0.06tn (1950) to US$0.32tn (1970), US$3.5tn (1990), US$15.3tn (2010) and US$24.9tn (2022). When was the steepest rise?

    • After 1990
    • Between 1970 and 1990
    • Between 1950 and 1970
    • Before the 1950s

  12. Which driver is most directly linked to free trade agreements between countries?

    • Technology
    • Transport
    • Trade
    • Climate

  13. Which driver is best linked to cheaper air freight on jet planes?

    • Trade
    • Technology
    • Transport
    • Politics

  14. Which driver is best linked to smartphones and video calls?

    • Geology
    • Transport
    • Technology
    • Trade

  15. In a PEEL paragraph, what does the Evidence step do?

    • Lists the drivers in alphabetical order
    • Repeats the question word for word
    • Gives a final verdict without any reasons
    • Adds a fact that supports the point being made

  16. Which two features make trade between members of a trade bloc easier?

    • Higher tariffs and a single shared language
    • Lower or no tariffs and shared trading rules
    • Bans on imports and exports for members
    • Separate currencies and closed borders

  17. What is a supply chain?

    • A line of ships waiting at one port for cargo
    • A chain of shops selling the same product in one town
    • The full journey of a product, from raw material to the shop
    • A set of tariffs placed on a single imported product

  18. A factory in Asia and a shop in the UK coordinate their orders every day. Which two drivers combine to make this possible?

    • Rainfall and wind speed in coastal areas
    • Transport and technology
    • Mining and farming
    • Tourism and sport

  19. Which statement best evaluates the roles of transport and technology in globalisation?

    • Neither matters, because trade has always been equally cheap everywhere
    • Transport caused globalisation, but technology played no part at all
    • Together they make distant links fast and cheap, so both matter
    • Technology alone explains all globalisation, and transport is irrelevant

  20. Why would losing one driver of globalisation not necessarily end the process?

    • Globalisation depends only on rainfall and weather patterns
    • The world only needs one driver for trade to be complete
    • Each driver reinforces the others, so losing one would slow globalisation rather than end it
    • All three drivers always work separately with no link between them, so each one stands alone completely

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