Lesson Y9-U06-L07

Y9-U06-L07 Development and the Power Gap Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 18

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U06-L07, Development and the Power Gap: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 18: Year 9: Contested Worlds: Resources, Conflict and Geopolitics, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does development mean?

    • How wealthy, healthy and well-off the people in a country are
    • How many new roads and buildings a country constructs each year
    • How much land a country has set aside for national parks
    • How quickly a country's population is growing each decade

  2. Name the three strands that development covers.

    • Population, migration and language
    • Farming, fishing and forestry
    • Roads, buildings and rivers
    • Wealth, health and education

  3. What does GDP per person measure?

    • The total number of hospitals in a country each year
    • The average income produced per person in a country each year
    • The number of years people spend in full-time school
    • The share of a country's land covered by forests

  4. What does the HDI combine into one score?

    • Roads, schools and hospitals
    • Wealth, health and education
    • Population, land area and rainfall
    • Imports, exports and tourism income

  5. Between which two values does the HDI run?

    • From 10 to 1000 on a scale that measures the total income of each family in pounds
    • From 1 to 100
    • From 0 (least developed) to 1 (most developed)
    • From -1 to 1

  6. Why can a single indicator mislead?

    • It is always collected by the same people in every country and measured the same way
    • It shows only one part of development and can hide inequality
    • It is always measured in exactly the same units everywhere
    • It is always too accurate to be useful to anybody

  7. Using the HDI chart, which country has the highest score?

    • Norway, at about 0.97
    • Chad, at about 0.39
    • India, at about 0.64
    • Brazil, at about 0.79

  8. Using the GDP chart, which country has the lowest GDP per person?

    • India, at about US$2,700
    • Brazil, at about US$10,000
    • Norway, at about US$87,000
    • Chad, at about US$1,700

  9. Compare Norway and Chad in one sentence using HDI.

    • Norway is far more developed: HDI about 0.97 against Chad's 0.39
    • Norway has an HDI of 0.39, while Chad has one of 0.97
    • Chad is far more developed, with an HDI of about 0.97 against Norway's score of 0.39
    • Norway and Chad have exactly the same HDI of about 0.39

  10. Which is the gap in HDI between Norway and Chad, using the values 0.97 and 0.39?

    • About 0.58
    • About 0.36
    • About 1.36
    • About 0.08

  11. Compare Norway and India using HDI. What is the approximate gap?

    • About 0.61, from 0.97 against 0.36
    • About 1.61, from 0.97 plus 0.64
    • About 0.13, from 0.97 against 0.84
    • About 0.33, from 0.97 against 0.64

  12. Which is a physical cause of the development gap?

    • A landlocked location with no coastline for trade
    • A new law that lowers the price of food
    • A rise in the number of tourists each year
    • A decision to build a new national railway line across the middle of the country

  13. Which is a historical cause of the development gap?

    • A country chose to build more hospitals than before
    • A country discovered a large oil field in recent years
    • Colonial rulers drew borders that still cause problems today
    • A country lowered taxes on imported goods last year

  14. Which is an economic cause of the development gap?

    • A colonial law that drew the country's borders
    • A flood that destroys the country's main river port
    • Relying on selling one cheap raw material for most income
    • A drought that stops crops from growing for one season across the whole region

  15. Why does selling one cheap raw material keep a country poor?

    • Raw materials are always banned from being sold abroad by law
    • Its income stays low and unstable, so there is little money to invest
    • Raw materials always cost more than finished goods in every market around the world
    • Raw materials can only be sold by the very richest countries

  16. Chad is landlocked, was a French colony and depends on raw oil exports. Which causes does this show?

    • Only physical causes, since oil is a natural resource
    • Only historical causes, since colonies are always poor
    • Only economic causes, since landlocked countries cannot trade
    • Physical and historical causes, plus an economic one

  17. Brazil has a GDP per person of about US$10,000 and India about US$2,700. Which is the higher?

    • They are exactly equal in value
    • Neither, because both are below US$1,000
    • Brazil, at about US$10,000
    • India, at about US$2,700

  18. Why is HDI often considered fairer than GDP alone?

    • It uses only the price of goods sold in the shops
    • It counts only the number of people living in a country
    • It is always measured by the government of each country
    • It also includes health and education, not just money

  19. Evaluate in one sentence: is a high GDP per person enough to show a country is well developed?

    • Yes, because a high GDP means there is no inequality at all
    • Yes, because GDP always shows exactly how healthy every person is
    • No, because GDP is never measured in any currency
    • No, because an average can hide inequality and it ignores health and education

  20. Which indicator measures health in the development lesson?

    • Years of schooling
    • GDP per person
    • Life expectancy
    • Income per household

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