Lesson Y8-U04-L08

China's Rise: From Factory of the World to Tech Power Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 10

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U04-L08, China's Rise: From Factory of the World to Tech Power: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 10: Year 8: Asia in Focus: China and India, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does GDP measure in an economy?

    • Total land area
    • Total economic value
    • Total population size
    • Average daily rainfall

  2. What is a product sold by one country to another called?

    • Subsidy
    • Tariff
    • Import
    • Export

  3. What term describes making goods in factories?

    • Quarrying
    • Agriculture
    • Manufacturing
    • Fishing

  4. On a line graph, what does a rising line show?

    • Increasing value
    • Decreasing value
    • Constant value
    • Zero value

  5. Why is China often called the 'factory of the world'?

    • Massive manufacturing output
    • Strict environmental laws
    • Small working population
    • High agricultural exports

  6. Roughly how many people live in China?

    • 14 million
    • 14 billion
    • 140 million
    • 1.4 billion

  7. A value rises from 10 to 20. What is the percentage change?

    • 10%
    • 100%
    • 20%
    • 200%

  8. China's GDP rose from $6 trillion to $15 trillion. What is the percentage change?

    • 9%
    • 250%
    • 150%
    • 60%

  9. A factory's output rose from 100 to 250 phones a day. What is the percentage change?

    • 250%
    • 400%
    • 50%
    • 150%

  10. Which city began as a Special Economic Zone and is now a major tech megacity?

    • Shenzhen
    • Chennai
    • Mumbai
    • Dharavi

  11. What key factor made Chinese factory goods very cheap in the 1990s?

    • Zero transport costs
    • Low wages
    • Advanced robotics
    • Free electricity

  12. By 2010, roughly what share of the world's air conditioners did China make?

    • About 8%
    • About 80%
    • About 30%
    • About 100%

  13. Which high-value product does modern China manufacture in large quantities?

    • Traditional textiles
    • Handmade pottery
    • Electric cars
    • Wooden furniture

  14. Why has China shifted away from low-cost factory work?

    • Rising wages
    • Lack of electricity
    • Ban on factories
    • Falling population

  15. Which activity represents China's early factory-stage growth?

    • Launching rockets
    • Designing software
    • Developing microchips
    • Making cheap toys

  16. Shenzhen grew from about 30,000 people in 1980 to over 17 million today. Roughly how many times bigger is it now?

    • About 60 times
    • About 6 times
    • About 570 times
    • About 5,700 times

  17. Which combination drove China's rapid economic growth from the 1990s?

    • Imports and taxation
    • Fishing and mining
    • Investment and exports
    • Isolation and farming

  18. What does a much steeper GDP line for China after 2000 show?

    • Faster economic growth
    • Lower total wealth
    • Decreased international trade
    • Slower population growth

  19. Why is China's shift from cheap goods to high technology important?

    • Raises product value
    • Lowers worker wages
    • Increases factory pollution
    • Stops all imports

  20. What was a major negative cost of China's rapid economic growth?

    • Complete rural depopulation
    • Zero national wealth
    • Severe environmental pollution
    • Universal high wages

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