Lesson Y8-U06-L02

Feeding the World: Global Food Supply Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 12

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U06-L02, Feeding the World: Global Food Supply: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 12: Year 8: Resources: Feeding and Powering the World, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes having reliable access to enough safe, healthy food?

    • Food miles
    • Malnutrition
    • Food security
    • Crop yield

  2. What unit is used to measure the energy provided by food?

    • Calorie
    • Gram
    • Litre
    • Watt

  3. What condition is caused by poor diet or lack of enough food?

    • Dehydration
    • Malnutrition
    • Exhaustion
    • Hypothermia

  4. What term refers to the amount of food produced per hectare of farmland?

    • Yield
    • Harvest
    • Output
    • Supply

  5. About how many calories does an adult need each day?

    • About 2,100
    • About 4,500
    • About 10,000
    • About 800

  6. Which term describes a situation where people cannot get enough nutritious food regularly?

    • Food tourism
    • Food insecurity
    • Food packaging
    • Food labelling

  7. What is a primary reason people go hungry in low-income countries?

    • Global lack of food
    • Excessive rainfall
    • Too many supermarkets
    • Low personal income

  8. India's supply is about 2,600 calories per person. Is this above or below the 2,100 needed?

    • Below
    • Cannot be known
    • Above
    • Exactly equal

  9. In nutrition terms, a daily supply of 1,900 calories per person is classified as:

    • Excessively high energy
    • Exactly average globally
    • More than enough food
    • Below the needed amount

  10. What map feature must you read first when interpreting a choropleth?

    • The compass rose
    • The title text
    • The key
    • The scale bar

  11. On a global food-supply choropleth map, what does a darker shade mean?

    • Lower rainfall levels
    • Higher population density
    • Higher calorie supply
    • Lower calorie supply

  12. Which global regions are usually shaded darkest for food supply?

    • South America
    • North America and Europe
    • Central Asia
    • Sub-Saharan Africa

  13. Which region is typically shaded lightest on a global food-supply map?

    • Australasia
    • Western Europe
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
    • North America

  14. How is Mexico shaded on a calorie map with a supply of 3,100 calories?

    • Dark
    • Light
    • Striped
    • Unshaded

  15. Which of these is a physical cause of hunger?

    • Trade tariffs
    • Drought
    • High taxes
    • Warfare

  16. Which of these is a human cause of hunger?

    • Blizzard
    • Volcano
    • Drought
    • War

  17. Why can a country have enough food overall but still experience hunger?

    • Too much rainfall
    • Unequal food distribution
    • Zero food production
    • Excessive trade exports

  18. What can a national average food supply figure hide?

    • Income inequality
    • Country borders
    • Exact land area
    • Total crop weight

  19. What is a major limitation of national averages when mapping global food supply data?

    • Measures water stress
    • Always completely inaccurate
    • Hides poorer groups
    • Shows exact daily intake

  20. What is the main reason around 700 million people go hungry despite enough calories?

    • Global crop ban
    • Lack of recipes
    • Total plant failure
    • Poor access

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