Lesson Y9-U01-L05

Global Supply Chains: Following a Smartphone Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 13

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U01-L05, Global Supply Chains: Following a Smartphone: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 13: Year 9: A Globalised World: Economies, Trade and Power, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Which economic sector involves extracting raw materials like minerals from the ground?

    • Primary sector
    • Tertiary sector
    • Secondary sector
    • Quaternary sector

  2. In a smartphone supply chain, where is most of the world's cobalt mined?

    • United Kingdom
    • Australia
    • United States of America
    • Democratic Republic of Congo

  3. In which country is lithium for phone batteries refined?

    • Chile
    • Vietnam
    • Taiwan
    • South Korea

  4. In which country are advanced microchips for most smartphones predominantly manufactured?

    • Kenya
    • Brazil
    • Taiwan
    • Canada

  5. In a smartphone's global supply chain, where is the product typically designed?

    • Beijing, China
    • California, USA
    • Nairobi, Kenya
    • Mumbai, India

  6. In which region or country are many global smartphones physically assembled?

    • Iceland
    • Switzerland
    • China
    • Norway

  7. Roughly how far can a single phone travel before it reaches a UK shop?

    • About 8,000 km
    • Over 80,000 km
    • About 8 million km
    • About 800 km

  8. What term describes the full network of stages making a product from raw materials?

    • Trade flow
    • Commodity chain
    • Supply chain
    • Assembly line

  9. What is a raw material or basic traded good called?

    • Service
    • Finished product
    • Commodity
    • Component

  10. What term describes the extra worth gained by a product at each production stage?

    • Manufacturing cost
    • Retail price
    • Value added
    • Import tax

  11. Which smartphone supply chain stage captures the largest share of overall value?

    • Freight shipping
    • Factory assembly
    • Mining raw materials
    • Design and retail

  12. A £600 phone's value is split: raw materials 2%, assembly 5%, components 33%, design and retail 60%. What share goes to raw materials?

    • 33 percent
    • 2 percent
    • 5 percent
    • 60 percent

  13. A £600 phone's value is split: raw materials 2%, assembly 5%, components 33%, design and retail 60%. What share goes to assembly?

    • 5 percent
    • 2 percent
    • 60 percent
    • 33 percent

  14. On a £600 phone, what is the value of the design and retail stage?

    • £600
    • £120
    • £360
    • £33

  15. On a £600 phone, what is the value of the assembly stage at 5 percent?

    • £360
    • £198
    • £30
    • £5

  16. On a £600 phone, what is the value of the components stage at 33 percent?

    • £540
    • £330
    • £198
    • £66

  17. What is the most crucial first question when checking a source's reliability?

    • What colour is it
    • How long is it
    • Where was it printed
    • Who wrote it

  18. Why might a company website be a biased source regarding its supply chain?

    • To promote local rivals
    • To share secret recipes
    • To increase tax bills
    • To protect its image

  19. Why must the date of supply-chain data always be checked?

    • Languages change daily
    • Paper decays slowly
    • Inks fade in sunlight
    • Data dates quickly

  20. Where are most raw materials extracted compared to design value?

    • Oceans and polar caps
    • Rural areas and farms
    • Global South and North
    • Global North and South

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