Lesson Y9-U02-L07

Y9-U02-L07 Managing the Megacity: Urban Solutions Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 14

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U02-L07, Managing the Megacity: Urban Solutions: 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 must a sustainable city balance?

    • Only the number of cars on the road
    • Only the height of its tallest building
    • Only the cost of building new roads
    • Social, economic and environmental needs

  2. What is urban planning?

    • Deciding how land in a city is used, built on and connected
    • Selling land to the highest bidder with no rules
    • Counting the number of people who visit a city
    • Painting the walls of a city centre each year

  3. What is Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)?

    • A system of taxis that cannot be shared
    • A bicycle hire scheme with no stations
    • A fast bus system with its own lanes, moving many people cheaply
    • A train line running under the city centre, funded by the national government and opened in 1990

  4. What is regeneration?

    • Cutting down all the trees in a city to make space
    • Moving every resident out of an area permanently
    • Closing a city's schools and hospitals
    • Improving a run-down area with new housing, jobs and services

  5. Why do BRT buses avoid traffic jams?

    • They travel above the city on cables
    • They stop at every single house
    • They run in lanes closed to cars
    • They run only at night

  6. Which benefit of BRT is social?

    • The buses run on solar power alone
    • Cheap, fast travel links poorer people to jobs
    • Fewer cars cut carbon emissions
    • Less congestion makes the air cleaner

  7. Which benefit of BRT is environmental?

    • Buses carry people to better schools
    • Cheap tickets link workers to new jobs
    • Stations create new shops and jobs for residents
    • Fewer cars mean less congestion and cleaner air

  8. In Curitiba, roughly how many passengers a day does the BRT network move?

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

  9. What is site-and-service upgrading?

    • Moving residents to a distant camp outside the city
    • Selling each home to a private developer
    • Improving an informal settlement by adding services rather than clearing it
    • Bulldozing homes to build a motorway through the area, with residents moved out before the work starts

  10. What is the main advantage of upgrading a settlement over clearing it?

    • People keep their homes, land rights and community
    • It removes all services from the area, so residents must travel far outside the city for water
    • It forces residents to leave the city
    • It is always the most expensive option

  11. Which city upgraded its hillside slums with cable cars, libraries and water?

    • Manchester, UK
    • Lagos, Nigeria
    • Curitiba, Brazil
    • Medellin, Colombia

  12. Public transport carried about 35 percent of journeys before a Bus Rapid Transit scheme. What share was it before?

    • About 97 percent
    • About 27 percent
    • About 35 percent
    • About 62 percent

  13. Public transport carried about 35 percent of journeys before a Bus Rapid Transit scheme and about 62 percent after. By how many percentage points did it rise?

    • About 62 points
    • About 17 points
    • About 27 points
    • About 37 points

  14. Which strategy does running cable cars up steep hillsides belong to?

    • Transport
    • Trade
    • Housing
    • Environment

  15. Which strategy does 'restore wetlands to soak up flood water' belong to?

    • Tourism
    • Transport
    • Housing
    • Environment

  16. Which strategy does 'give residents legal rights to their land' belong to?

    • Transport
    • Environment
    • Housing
    • Economic only

  17. Which kind of evaluation answer is weak?

    • Saying 'it is good' with no evidence or weakness
    • Naming a weakness and then explaining why it matters
    • Giving a judgement that uses 'best when' with evidence
    • Weighing a strategy against the three pillars

  18. What does a strong evaluation of a city strategy do?

    • Ignores any weaknesses to keep the answer short
    • Weighs its strengths and weaknesses against the three pillars
    • Gives an opinion without any evidence at all
    • Lists the strategy's name, its cost and its date of launch, but never says whether it works well

  19. Why is BRT alone unlikely to make a megacity fully sustainable?

    • It only works in cities with no residents
    • It does not tackle problems such as housing and flooding, so other strategies are needed too
    • It costs more than any other option in every city, so no mayor would ever pay for it in practice
    • It makes every road in the city disappear

  20. Which judgement about a mayor's first funding choice is best supported?

    • Fund only the most expensive strategy with no evidence, because high cost always means high quality
    • Fund nothing, because every strategy creates a trade-off
    • Fund a strategy that improves more than one pillar, while acknowledging its trade-offs
    • Fund whichever option the public knows least about

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