Lesson Y8-U03-L06

Why Are Some Countries Less Developed? Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 9

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U03-L06, Why Are Some Countries Less Developed?: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 9: Year 8: Development and Global Inequality, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What are the three main categories of development barriers?

    • Physical, historical, economic
    • Primary, secondary, tertiary
    • Social, political, cultural
    • Natural, artificial, global

  2. What does the geographical term 'landlocked' mean?

    • Surrounded by mountains
    • High altitude plateau
    • No coastline
    • Desert climate zone

  3. What historical process involved one country ruling and exploiting another?

    • Colonialism
    • Industrialisation
    • Globalization
    • Urbanisation

  4. What is an unprocessed raw material like copper ore called?

    • Tertiary service
    • Primary product
    • Manufactured good
    • Finished product

  5. Which of these is a physical factor that can hold development back?

    • Unfair trade rules
    • Frequent drought
    • High national debt
    • Colonial history

  6. Which of these is a historical factor that can hold development back?

    • Mountainous terrain
    • Past colonisation
    • Soil erosion
    • Landlocked location

  7. Why do exported raw materials typically earn a developing country very little money?

    • Transport costs are zero
    • Processing happens abroad
    • Governments ban exports
    • Demand is always falling

  8. Which type of factor is large debt repayment?

    • Economic
    • Cultural
    • Physical
    • Historical

  9. A drought ruins harvests. Which type of factor is this?

    • Political
    • Physical
    • Historical
    • Economic

  10. In a typical global supply chain, who receives the largest share of the final price?

    • The village community
    • The local farm worker
    • The shop or roaster
    • The raw material picker

  11. A coffee farmer keeps 10 cents of every US$1 a shop charges. How much of the US$1 is passed on to other people in the chain?

    • 10 cents
    • 50 cents
    • 1 dollar
    • 90 cents

  12. Selling cheap raw materials and buying expensive manufactured goods is an example of what type of factor?

    • Economic factor
    • Climatic factor
    • Tectonic factor
    • Physical factor

  13. Why does being landlocked make international trade harder for a country like Chad?

    • Extreme ocean storms
    • Too many deep harbours
    • No direct coast access
    • Lack of fresh water

  14. What direct negative effect do large annual debt repayments have on a developing country?

    • Higher factory output
    • Less money for schools
    • Increased crop yields
    • Free public transport

  15. Which type of factor does a carelessly drawn colonial border belong to?

    • Geological factor
    • Physical factor
    • Relief factor
    • Historical factor

  16. If Chad has an HDI of 0.39 and Norway has 0.97, what does this show?

    • Environmental equality
    • Identical living standards
    • Large development gap
    • Economic convergence

  17. What happens when a physical disaster like a drought combines with heavy national debt?

    • Crops grow faster
    • Debt is cancelled
    • Damage compounds severely
    • Development accelerates

  18. Can a country easily erase the long-term impacts of historical colonisation?

    • Completely within one year
    • Never under any circumstances
    • Instantly overnight
    • Partly, but effects linger

  19. Why might a landlocked country with excellent rainfall still suffer from low development?

    • Water is always toxic
    • Trade and debt limits
    • Energy costs are zero
    • Farming is impossible

  20. What economic factor keeps a country poor when selling unprocessed raw materials?

    • Surplus skilled labour
    • Excessive local taxation
    • High domestic wages
    • Unequal trade terms

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