Lesson Y9-U06-L09

Y9-U06-L09 A Sustainable Future: The Global Goals Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 18

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U06-L09, A Sustainable Future: The Global Goals: 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. How many Sustainable Development Goals are there?

    • 20
    • 15
    • 12
    • 17

  2. In what year were the SDGs agreed, and by when should they be met?

    • Agreed in 2015, to be met by 2030
    • Agreed in 2020, to be met by 2050
    • Agreed in 2000, to be met by 2015
    • Agreed in 1990, to be met by 2100

  3. Name the three pillars of sustainability.

    • Political, military and cultural
    • Physical, historical and economic, which are the three causes of the development gap
    • Social, economic and environmental
    • Local, regional and national

  4. Which pillar does 'climate action' belong to?

    • Historical, because it looks back at past events
    • Social
    • Environmental
    • Economic

  5. Which organisation agreed the SDGs?

    • The World Bank
    • The European Union
    • The United Nations
    • The International Court of Justice

  6. Which goal is most on track, according to the progress chart?

    • Goal 7 Energy, at 65 percent
    • Goal 2 Hunger, at 25 percent
    • Goal 6 Water, at 55 percent
    • Goal 13 Climate, at 30 percent

  7. Which goal is furthest behind, according to the progress chart?

    • Goal 13 Climate, at 30 percent
    • Goal 2 Hunger, at 25 percent
    • Goal 1 Poverty, at 40 percent
    • Goal 6 Water, at 55 percent

  8. On the progress chart, how many percentage points behind energy is hunger?

    • 15 percentage points, from 40 minus 25
    • 40 percentage points, from 65 minus 25
    • 30 percentage points, from 55 minus 25
    • 50 percentage points, from 75 minus 25

  9. How far ahead is water (Goal 6) of climate (Goal 13) on the progress chart?

    • 15 percentage points, from 45 minus 30
    • 10 percentage points, from 40 minus 30
    • 25 percentage points, from 55 minus 30
    • 35 percentage points, from 65 minus 30

  10. Which goal links to the food security lesson in this unit?

    • Goal 2, Zero Hunger
    • Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation
    • Goal 7, Affordable and Clean Energy
    • Goal 13, Climate Action

  11. Which goal links to the water security lesson in this unit?

    • Goal 7, Affordable and Clean Energy
    • Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation
    • Goal 1, No Poverty
    • Goal 2, Zero Hunger

  12. Which pillar does 'no poverty' mainly belong to?

    • Historical, because poverty began in the past
    • Environmental only, because it is about the land
    • Economic, with some social overlap
    • Political, because governments decide who is poor

  13. Which pillar is about health, education and fairness for people?

    • Economic
    • Historical
    • Social
    • Environmental

  14. Which is a strength of the SDGs?

    • No country is ever held to account for a missed goal
    • Progress on every goal has been fast and steady since 2015
    • All 193 UN member countries agreed to the goals
    • Funding for the goals has grown much faster than needed

  15. Which is a weakness of the SDGs?

    • All 193 UN member countries agreed to them together
    • No country is punished for missing a goal
    • Shared targets have raised global awareness of the goals
    • Yearly data tracks progress on each goal in every country

  16. Why might a richer and a poorer country rank the SDGs differently?

    • Poorer countries are never allowed to rank the goals at all
    • A poorer country may put poverty or hunger first, while a richer one may put climate first
    • Richer and poorer countries always agree on the exact same ranking of the goals every year
    • Richer countries ignore all the goals and rank nothing

  17. Why do some SDGs progress faster than others?

    • Some goals were agreed earlier in the year than the others, so they had more time to succeed
    • Some goals are simply easier to remember than the others
    • Some goals have fewer countries signed up to them
    • Some have clear technology and funding, while others are blocked by conflict

  18. Evaluate in one sentence: are the SDGs more about ambition than action?

    • They are only about action, because they set no targets at all
    • They are neither ambitious nor active, because nothing has been measured
    • They are ambitious, and progress on several goals shows the action is still lagging
    • They are fully active, because every goal is already completed

  19. What does 'equity' mean in the Global Goals?

    • Building the same number of schools in every country regardless of need
    • Fairness, so everyone gets what they need, not just an equal share
    • Measuring the value of a country's land in national currency
    • Giving every person exactly the same amount of money each year

  20. What is a trade-off?

    • When gaining one thing means giving up another, such as growth versus the environment
    • When a country gives aid to a neighbour in return for nothing at all
    • When two countries sign a deal that benefits both of them equally
    • When a country sells all of its raw materials to a neighbour

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