AQA GCSE Geography Quiz - Paper 2 - Bay House

What is the correct definition of a megacity?

• City with a population of 1 million or more.

• City with a population of 10 million or more.

• City with a population of 15 million or more.

• City with a population of 20 million or more.

Which type of countries is experiencing the slowest urban growth?

• HICs

• NEEs

• LICs

What is the 'development gap'?

• The widening gap in wealth and development between the world's richest and poorest countries.

• The unemployment gap within a country.

• The quality of the environment between countries.

• The difference in population between countries.

Which two of the following is a 'physical' factor affecting uneven development?

• Location

• Wealth

• Education

• Climate

Which of these strategies to reduce the development gap is known as 'appropriate technology'?

• Debt to HICs is cancelled or interest rates are lowered.

• Simple affordable technology that is easy to use and maintain. Improves the quality of life of people in LICs.

• When local communities in LICs create small traditional banks to store their savings to use when local people need it most.

• When one country gifts another country money or resources to improve lives.

Nigeria is an...

• LIC

• NEE

• HIC

What % of the Niger Delta water supply is contaminated by the Shell Oil industry?

• 50%

• 60%

• 75%

• 85%

State two causes of de-industrialisation in the UK

• The government banned the manufacture of certain products.

• Natural resource supplies in the UK such as coal are running out.

• Manufacturing can now be carried out for cheaper rates in developing countries.

• The UK started to get concerned about environmental quality.

Which of these four improvements to the UK's transport infrastructure is a port?

• Heathrow - Third Runway

• Liverpool2

• HS2

• Smart Motorways - M27.

Which of these is NOT an environmental impact of development in Nigeria?

• Deforestation

• Air Pollution

• Better healthcare

• Oil spills