Lesson Y9-U02-L05

Y9-U02-L05 Opportunities of Urban Growth in Lagos Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 14

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U02-L05, Opportunities of Urban Growth in Lagos: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 14: Year 9: Urban Worlds: Megacities, Growth and the Future of Cities, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Roughly what share of Nigeria's people live in Lagos?

    • About 50 percent
    • About 75 percent
    • About 30 percent
    • About 10 percent

  2. Roughly what share of Nigeria's GDP does Lagos produce?

    • About 75 percent
    • About 50 percent
    • About 10 percent
    • About 30 percent

  3. What is an economic opportunity?

    • A free school place for a child
    • Clean water piped to a home, which the city council has promised to deliver to every district soon
    • A chance to earn money, such as a job or running a business
    • A hospital bed for a sick patient

  4. What is a social opportunity?

    • A chance linked to daily life, such as health, education, water or power
    • A chance to join a tech start-up as a coder
    • A chance to earn money from a business, such as running a stall or a small workshop in the city
    • A chance to sell goods at a busy port

  5. Which of these is an economic opportunity?

    • A job loading ships at Apapa port
    • Treatment at a city hospital
    • A free place at a state secondary school
    • Mains electricity reaching a new home

  6. Which of these is a social opportunity?

    • A free place at a state secondary school
    • Selling food from a market stall for income
    • Running a stall in Balogun Market
    • A coding job at a tech start-up

  7. What is the informal economy?

    • A market that sells only imported luxury goods, and is visited by foreign tourists and wealthy buyers
    • Work that is not taxed or officially recorded, such as street trading
    • The official economy recorded in government accounts
    • A tax paid on every item sold in a shop

  8. What does 'standard of living' mean?

    • How comfortable and secure a person's everyday life is
    • The number of rooms in a family's house
    • The height of a person's home above sea level
    • The price of food in the local market

  9. Which combination makes Lagos a major economic engine?

    • Port, finance and tech hubs that attract firms and jobs
    • A remote village with no road or port
    • Government offices that employ no one, but are still funded every year by national taxes collected
    • Only farming and mining in the countryside

  10. What is Yabacon Valley?

    • A famous film studio in Hollywood
    • A river that flows into the Sahara
    • A rural farm in the north of Nigeria
    • A nickname for Lagos's tech scene

  11. Which company is a well-known Lagos tech start-up?

    • Flutterwave
    • Nissan
    • Apple
    • Unilever

  12. Roughly what share of Lagos homes have electricity?

    • About 50 percent
    • About 95 percent
    • About 25 percent
    • About 75 percent

  13. Roughly what share of homes in some rural Nigerian states had electricity?

    • About 90 percent
    • About 75 percent
    • Under 40 percent
    • About 60 percent

  14. Roughly how many people arrive in Lagos to live each day?

    • About 200,000
    • About 20
    • About 2,000
    • About 2 million

  15. Lagos holds about 10 percent of Nigeria's people. Which of these describes its share of Nigeria's GDP?

    • A share of about 90 percent
    • A share of about 10 percent
    • A share of about 30 percent
    • A share of about 3 percent

  16. Lagos holds about 10 percent of Nigeria's people and produces about 30 percent of its GDP. How many times larger is the GDP share than the population share?

    • Three times
    • Two times
    • Ten times
    • Five times

  17. Why is official job data likely to undercount work in Lagos?

    • Official data is only collected in rural areas, so city jobs are never counted in any national survey
    • Lagos has no workers who take jobs
    • Official data never includes any jobs at all
    • Much work is in the informal economy and is not officially recorded

  18. Why can an average hide inequality in Lagos?

    • Averages are banned from being used in city data
    • Wealthy Victoria Island sits beside poor Makoko, so one average hides the gap
    • Averages always show exactly equal incomes for everyone, so no gap between rich and poor areas is ever seen
    • Averages are only worked out for the countryside

  19. Which statement best judges whether Lagos offers a better life to a rural migrant?

    • Lagos is worse than rural life in every single way
    • Lagos never offers any benefit to rural migrants
    • Lagos gives every single migrant a better life with no problems at all, and nobody there ever struggles to pay rent
    • On balance, the jobs and school places outweigh the crowding for most migrants, though the poorest still struggle

  20. Why do residents of Victoria Island and Makoko face such different opportunities?

    • The two places are not in Lagos at all
    • The opportunities are unevenly shared across the city
    • Victoria Island and Makoko have exactly the same services
    • Makoko has more jobs than any other part of Lagos

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