Lesson Y9-U01-L09

Y9-U01-L09 Pushback: Deglobalisation and a More Fragmented World Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 13

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U01-L09, Pushback: Deglobalisation and a More Fragmented 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 deglobalisation?

    • Countries joining together into one single world government that sets the same rules for all trade
    • Countries building the same number of factories each year
    • Countries raising tariffs only on their own exports
    • Countries trading and connecting less, which slows or reverses globalisation

  2. What is reshoring?

    • Moving factories to a new country every year
    • Bringing factories and jobs back home instead of making goods abroad
    • Building new roads to a neighbouring airport
    • Sending goods back to the place where they were first made

  3. What is protectionism?

    • When all countries share the same trade rules equally
    • When a firm hides its factories to protect its brand from competitors and from critical reports in the press
    • When a government gives free goods to every import
    • When a government taxes or blocks imports to protect its own industries

  4. What is a tariff?

    • A subsidy given to a farmer for growing crops
    • A payment a shop makes to its workers each week, calculated from the number of hours each one has worked
    • A fee paid to join a global trade fair
    • A tax a government puts on goods coming in from another country

  5. What is fragmentation in trade?

    • When a country trades with only one region of the world
    • When goods are broken into small parts before shipping
    • When the world splits into rival trading blocs instead of one open market
    • When a single factory is divided into many small shops that each sell their own goods to local customers

  6. Trade as a share of world GDP: 1990 38%, 2000 51%, 2008 61%, 2016 56%, 2023 57%. In which year did it peak?

    • 2008
    • 2000
    • 1990
    • 2023

  7. Trade as a share of world GDP: 1990 38%, 2000 51%, 2008 61%, 2016 56%, 2023 57%. What was the share in 2008?

    • About 38 percent
    • About 61 percent
    • About 57 percent
    • About 51 percent

  8. Trade as a share of world GDP: 1990 38%, 2000 51%, 2008 61%, 2016 56%, 2023 57%. What was the share in 2023?

    • About 57 percent
    • About 38 percent
    • About 61 percent
    • About 56 percent

  9. What happened to the trade share between 2008 and 2023?

    • It rose steadily to over 80 percent
    • It fell back to 38 percent again
    • It stopped rising, flattened and dipped slightly
    • It stayed exactly the same in every single year

  10. By how many percentage points did the trade share rise between 1990 and 2008?

    • About 13 percentage points
    • About 33 percentage points
    • About 23 percentage points
    • About 43 percentage points

  11. Which shock made many firms want shorter and safer supply chains?

    • Rising wages in the UK
    • The invention of the internet
    • Covid-19
    • A new car model launch

  12. What did the US and China do after 2018 that slowed trade between them?

    • Banned all phone exports from both countries
    • Taxed billions of dollars of each other's goods
    • Opened every border to free trade
    • Stopped all shipping in the Pacific Ocean

  13. Which type of cause is 'tariffs added in a trade war'?

    • Economic
    • Cultural
    • Environmental
    • Security

  14. Which type of cause is 'fear of depending on a rival for energy'?

    • Environmental
    • Cultural
    • Economic
    • Security

  15. What does friend-shoring mean?

    • Sharing a single factory between two close friends
    • Giving free goods to friendly countries
    • Ending all trade with a country's neighbours
    • Trading mainly with allies that a country trusts

  16. Why are microchips and energy now seen as strategic goods?

    • They are only traded in small amounts by rare firms, so governments rarely think about them at all
    • They are banned from all international trade
    • Governments see them as vital for security, not just cheap to buy
    • They have no value to any country

  17. Why is the evidence for globalisation reversing not clear-cut?

    • Every country has switched to fully self-sufficient farming
    • All trade has stopped completely since 2008
    • Tariffs have been removed from all goods worldwide
    • Digital services trade is still growing even as some goods trade slows

  18. Why is one slow decade not proof of a long-term reversal?

    • Slow decades never happen in trade data
    • One slow decade always proves globalisation has ended
    • Only the UK's trade data counts as evidence
    • Trends can change, so one period may not show a long-term pattern

  19. Which evidence best suggests globalisation is slowing rather than fully reversing?

    • The trade share has risen to over 90 percent since 2008
    • Every country has closed its borders to all imports, so every trade route has been closed since 2008
    • Trade has disappeared entirely from the global economy
    • The trade share has flattened since 2008, while services and digital trade keep growing

  20. Which conclusion best fits the evidence?

    • Globalisation has grown faster than ever with no slowdown at all
    • Globalisation is unrelated to tariffs, shocks and trade data
    • Globalisation is slowing and changing shape, not fully reversing
    • Globalisation has ended completely and will never restart

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