Lesson Y9-U01-L08

The UK in a Globalised World Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 13

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U01-L08, The UK in a Globalised World: 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 is deindustrialisation?

    • When a country builds many new factories in a single decade
    • When a country sells all of its land to foreign firms
    • When a country bans all imports of manufactured goods
    • When a country loses factories and manufacturing jobs over time

  2. What is a service economy?

    • An economy in which all shops are owned by the government
    • An economy with no trade with any other country
    • An economy that relies only on farming and mining
    • An economy based on selling services like banking, not making goods

  3. What does FDI stand for?

    • Fixed development index
    • Free domestic income
    • Foreign direct investment
    • Final delivery item

  4. What do 'food miles' measure?

    • The distance food travels from where it is grown to your plate
    • The number of food shops in one town
    • The weight of food packaging used in supermarkets
    • The number of kilometres a farmer drives in a year

  5. In the Clark-Fisher model, which sector grows most as a country develops?

    • Tertiary (services)
    • Secondary, only at the very start
    • Primary (farming and mining)
    • None of the sectors grows

  6. About what share of UK jobs were in manufacturing in 1980?

    • About 75 percent
    • About 25 percent
    • About 10 percent
    • About 50 percent

  7. What share of UK jobs is in manufacturing today?

    • About 75 percent
    • About 25 percent
    • Under 10 percent
    • About 50 percent

  8. Roughly how many people does London, as a world financial centre, employ?

    • Over 500,000
    • Under 5,000
    • About 50,000
    • Exactly one million

  9. In which year did the Japanese car firm Nissan build its plant in Sunderland?

    • 1956
    • 1996
    • 1976
    • 1986

  10. Roughly how many people does Nissan's Sunderland plant employ?

    • About 600,000
    • About 600
    • About 6,000
    • About 60,000

  11. Why are jobs from foreign investment such as Nissan's plant described as vulnerable?

    • They only exist in farming villages
    • They are banned from exporting any goods
    • They depend on global decisions made far away
    • They are always guaranteed to last for life

  12. Which change allows UK shops to sell food that is out of season?

    • Hand-picked wild foraging
    • Local farmers' markets only
    • Grain stored in village barns
    • Cheap air freight and shipping

  13. Distances food travelled to a UK shop: Kenya beans 6,800 km, Peru asparagus 10,200 km, Spain tomatoes 1,500 km, UK apples 50 km. Which food travelled furthest?

    • UK apples
    • Peru asparagus
    • Spain tomatoes
    • Kenya beans

  14. Distances food travelled to a UK shop: Kenya beans 6,800 km, Peru asparagus 10,200 km, Spain tomatoes 1,500 km, UK apples 50 km. Which food travelled the least?

    • UK apples
    • Kenya beans
    • Spain tomatoes
    • Peru asparagus

  15. Roughly how far do green beans flown from Kenya travel to reach a UK shelf?

    • About 6,800 km
    • About 10,200 km
    • About 680 km
    • About 1,500 km

  16. A UK clothing factory closes and moves production to Bangladesh. Who are the winners from this change?

    • UK factory workers lose their jobs and face hard times ahead
    • Shoppers gain cheaper clothes and Bangladeshi workers gain jobs
    • Nobody, because the closure has no real effect at all
    • The local town loses its main employer for good

  17. Why do the costs of a closing factory hit one place so hard?

    • The benefits are spread thinly across many shoppers, but job losses are concentrated in one town
    • Shoppers are charged more for clothes after every closure
    • Bangladeshi workers pay all the costs of the closure
    • Factory towns always receive the cheapest clothes in the country, paid for by the national government in full

  18. Which of these is a cost for the UK?

    • Cheaper clothes and electronics in the shops
    • Factory and mining towns lost thousands of jobs
    • Year-round choice of food from abroad
    • Nissan created 6,000 jobs in Sunderland

  19. Which statement best evaluates whether globalisation has helped the UK on balance?

    • It helped every UK town equally, with no losers at all
    • It harmed the UK in every way, with no benefits anywhere at all, and every town lost its jobs, shops and young people
    • It brought cheaper goods and new jobs, but it cost some industrial towns and farmers, so the picture is mixed
    • It made no difference, because the UK never trades abroad

  20. Why is high food miles a concern for the environment?

    • Long journeys mean food is always fresh and nutritious
    • Long journeys make imported food cheaper than local food in every case
    • Long journeys stop food from being sold in supermarkets
    • Long journeys add to carbon emissions from transport

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