Lesson Y9-U06-L08

Y9-U06-L08 Aid, Trade and Closing the Gap Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 18

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Lesson Y9-U06-L08, Aid, Trade and Closing the 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. Define aid in one sentence.

    • Help given by one country or group to another, such as money or goods
    • Money that a country must pay back with interest to the lender
    • Workers who are hired by a company to move between countries
    • Goods that a country sells abroad at the highest possible price

  2. Define trade in one sentence.

    • Free gifts sent by one country to help another after a disaster
    • Loans made by charities to people living in poverty
    • The buying and selling of goods and services between countries
    • Workers sent by a country to help build a new road

  3. What is the difference between emergency and development aid?

    • Emergency aid is paid for by the country receiving it
    • Development aid is only given after a disaster has ended
    • Emergency aid is fast, short-term help; development aid is long-term and builds skills
    • Emergency aid is always cash; development aid is always food, sent by air every week

  4. What does 'dependency' mean in the context of aid?

    • When a country relies on outside help and cannot manage alone
    • When a country exports most of its goods to one neighbour
    • When a country is able to pay all its debts in full each year
    • When a country builds its own roads without any outside help

  5. What is infrastructure?

    • The list of all the countries that trade with one another
    • The amount of money a country keeps in its national bank
    • The number of visitors who arrive in the country each year
    • Basic services a country needs, such as roads, water, power and schools

  6. Give one example of infrastructure that aid might build.

    • A clean water supply or a new school
    • A holiday resort designed for international tourists
    • A luxury shopping centre in the capital city
    • A new football stadium used only for big matches

  7. Why does selling chocolate earn Ghana more than selling raw cocoa beans?

    • Chocolate is a more valuable, finished product, so it earns far more income
    • Chocolate is never traded internationally, so prices are higher
    • Chocolate is always lighter, so it is cheaper to ship abroad
    • Chocolate is always made using fewer workers than cocoa beans

  8. Which of these is an example of trade rather than aid?

    • A government sends tents to a town after an earthquake
    • A charity sends free school books to a region after a long and severe drought
    • A country sells coffee to Europe and earns money from the sale
    • A relief agency delivers free food after a flood has hit

  9. Which is an example of emergency aid?

    • Funding a university course for local engineers
    • Building a school that will serve children for decades
    • Training nurses and building a hospital over ten years in the same region
    • Tents and clean water sent in the week after an earthquake

  10. Which is an example of development aid?

    • Training nurses and building a hospital over a ten year period
    • Sending tents and food in the week after a flood
    • Sending water tankers during a short, sudden drought
    • Delivering blankets to families within days of an earthquake that struck the region

  11. How can aid accidentally hold a country back?

    • If it creates dependency, so the country relies on outside help
    • If it is delivered by charities based in the same country
    • If it is delivered in the form of tents or blankets
    • If it is delivered in the form of medicine for the sick

  12. Which is a drawback of aid?

    • It helps train skilled workers such as nurses and teachers
    • Money can be wasted, misused or come with strict conditions
    • It saves lives quickly after a disaster in most cases
    • It always builds schools and hospitals in every single case

  13. Which is a benefit of aid?

    • It always raises the price of food for local families
    • It always makes a country dependent on outside help forever
    • It always leads to conflict between neighbouring countries
    • It can build schools, hospitals and clean water supplies

  14. Why does trade often give a country more control than aid?

    • Trade is only possible if the country accepts outside rulers
    • Trade means the country sells its land to foreign owners
    • Trade income is the country's own to keep, while aid often has conditions
    • Trade is always free, while aid must always be paid back in full

  15. Which strategy gives a country lasting income?

    • Trade, because exports bring money year after year
    • Aid, because it is always given in exactly the same amount each year
    • Trade, because it is always free of any cost to the exporter
    • Aid, because it can never be stopped or reduced by donors

  16. What does fair trade aim to do?

    • Give all trade income to the richest farmers in the world
    • Stop all goods from being sold between countries at any time
    • Make every product cheaper for buyers in rich countries
    • Pay producers in poorer countries a fair, stable price

  17. In the HDI chart, which country has the second-highest score?

    • Chad, at about 0.39
    • Norway, at about 0.96, which is the highest score shown in the chart
    • Ghana, at about 0.60
    • Bangladesh, at about 0.67

  18. Which country in the HDI chart has the largest development gap to close?

    • Chad, with the lowest HDI on the chart
    • Norway, with the highest HDI on the chart
    • Bangladesh, with an HDI of about 0.67
    • Ghana, with an HDI of about 0.60

  19. Evaluate in one sentence: which helps a country develop more in the long run, aid or trade?

    • Aid always helps more, because trade is always controlled by rich countries
    • Trade often helps more in the long run, since it builds income the country controls
    • Aid always helps more, because trade never reaches the poorest people
    • Neither helps, because development depends only on luck and weather

  20. What is an example of fair trade in action?

    • A government giving free food to people after a flood disaster
    • A charity sending tents to families who lost their homes
    • A buyer paying a stable, fair price to farmers in a poorer country
    • A buyer paying the lowest possible price to a farmer each season, every single year

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