Lesson Y9-U02-L06

Y9-U02-L06 Challenges of Urban Growth: Makoko and Informal Settlements Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 14

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U02-L06, Challenges of Urban Growth: Makoko and Informal Settlements: 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. What is an informal settlement?

    • An unplanned area where people build their own homes, often without legal land rights
    • A market that opens only at weekends for local traders
    • A planned estate built by the government with full services, roads and parks, and clear legal land rights
    • A hotel district reserved for tourists in the city centre

  2. Which city contains the stilt settlement of Makoko?

    • Cairo, Egypt
    • Lagos, Nigeria
    • Nairobi, Kenya
    • Accra, Ghana

  3. Where is Makoko's housing built?

    • Underground in old mine tunnels
    • On floating islands far out at sea
    • On the top of a steep mountain
    • On stilts over Lagos Lagoon

  4. Why is Makoko's housing called 'informal'?

    • It grew without official planning permission
    • It is a luxury estate with a private security gate
    • It was designed by a famous architect
    • It is a temporary camp used only in emergencies

  5. What is a service deficit?

    • A tax paid by residents on water bills
    • A surplus of shops and hospitals in one district, built faster than the population could ever use them
    • A school that has more pupils than it can teach
    • A shortage of basic services such as clean water, toilets or electricity

  6. What is a slum?

    • A crowded settlement that often lacks clean water, sewers or secure housing
    • A national park with no buildings at all
    • A wealthy suburb with large gardens and wide roads, where every household has its own private driveway
    • A factory district built only for export goods

  7. Makoko homes: piped water 8%, mains sewer 5%, mains electricity 35%. What share of homes have piped water?

    • About 50 percent
    • About 35 percent
    • About 8 percent
    • About 75 percent

  8. Makoko homes: piped water 8%, mains sewer 5%, mains electricity 35%. Which service do homes have least access to?

    • Piped water
    • Mains electricity
    • Schools
    • Mains sewer

  9. Makoko homes: piped water 8%, mains sewer 5%, mains electricity 35%. What share of homes have mains electricity?

    • About 35 percent
    • About 8 percent
    • About 5 percent
    • About 65 percent

  10. Why is a lack of mains sewers a serious problem in Makoko?

    • Sewers would stop fishing boats from moving
    • Sewers are needed to make the stilts stronger
    • Sewers provide the only source of drinking water
    • Waste can enter the lagoon below the homes

  11. Which of these is a risk faced by crowded timber homes?

    • Fire and flooding
    • Earthquakes that move the whole lagoon
    • Drought that dries out the lagoon completely
    • Heavy snowfall that buries the houses

  12. What does 'self-help' mean in an informal settlement?

    • Residents are paid by the government to build homes
    • Residents move out of the settlement once it is built
    • Residents refuse all help from their neighbours, preferring to live alone and work separately from others
    • Residents improve their own homes and area rather than waiting for the state

  13. Why is calling Makoko 'just a slum' described as a stereotype?

    • It is the most accurate description of any community, because it captures every family's daily life fully
    • It describes the lagoon rather than the people
    • It ignores the jobs, community networks and enterprise that also exist there
    • Stereotypes are only about wealthy places

  14. Which activity in Makoko is described as an enterprising source of income?

    • Fish-smoking and the fishing trade
    • Building skyscrapers on the lagoon
    • Running a national airport
    • Mining gold in the lagoon bed

  15. Why might a fish-smoking trade be both a strength and a challenge?

    • It brings income, but its smoke and waste add to pollution over the lagoon
    • It is illegal everywhere so it cannot be a strength
    • It only ever helps the lagoon and never causes any harm, because the smoke is always carried far away
    • It has no effect on income or on the environment

  16. Why does being close to the city centre help Makoko's residents?

    • It means the settlement is never flooded, because the city centre protects every home from high water
    • It means residents need no income at all
    • It keeps the settlement away from all services
    • It makes jobs and transport by water and road easier to reach

  17. What do insecure land rights mean for residents?

    • They are guaranteed a new house by the government every year, which is paid for from the city's rates
    • They pay no tax and receive free services
    • They can fear eviction at any time because they lack legal rights to the land
    • They own the land outright and can sell it freely

  18. Which statement best describes the central enquiry question about informal settlements such as Makoko?

    • Whether Makoko has a football ground
    • Whether informal settlements are a problem to clear or a solution to learn from
    • Which bus route serves the Makoko community best, and whether its stops are on the main road nearby
    • How many fish live in the lagoon each day

  19. Which judgement about Makoko is best supported by the evidence?

    • It should be cleared at once, because it has no value at all
    • It cannot be judged, because it has no residents
    • It should be left as it is, with no improvements to any services, so that residents stay exactly as they are
    • Clearing it would destroy livelihoods, so improving water, sewers and secure rights is likely the better option

  20. Why is a both-and view useful when judging Makoko?

    • Because Makoko has no economy and no challenges at all
    • Because the lagoon is always either good or bad, never both, so only one judgement can ever be made
    • Because only one side of any place is ever worth considering
    • The lagoon brings trade and cheap transport, but also flooding and pollution

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