Globalisation

Question 1

Physical size of world has not changed -what has changed?

Answer 1

What has changed in the world is the speed in which we can communicate and move between places.

Question 2

What is globalisation ?

Answer 2

Globalisation is a PROCESS caused by advances in technology which involves the WEB interelationships that have formed between countries - companies- people - resources - culture and money.

Question 3

Is globalisation a new concept?

Answer 3

No- goods have always been traded BUT the way things are traded has.

Question 4

Technology allows a wider variety of and larger quantity of goods and services as well as ideas , information , and money to be exchanged between countries faster.
True or false?

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What is a transnational corporation ?

Answer 5

An organisation that has a head office in one country and then subsidary offices in other countries .

Question 6

Is globalisation the major process causing change in the world today ….true or false?

Answer 6

True

Question 7

An eg of globalisation is when a company makes a profit on clothes by making them in indonesia - sweatshop and then on sells them for a profit in england.
Is this true or false ?

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The growing inequalities in todays world from globalisation is because of what?

Answer 8

Trade practices today are making definite winners and losers in todays world– low wages- child labour are occurring.
Poverty is a reality for 827 million people in 2015 who live in extreme poverty .

Question 9

How many people live in todays world on $2 a day?

Answer 9

2.5 million people live in $2 a day.

Question 10

Can globalisation change culture?

Answer 10

Yes through a variety of ways globalisation can change cultures–through TV - and sports and mass communication is beamed all around the world- advertising - sponsorships -

Question 11

List an economic factor that are part of globalisation.

Answer 11

Sweat shops - child labour and low wages for people in less developed countries who work for low wages and in dangerous conditions - making clothes and other items for the western world. Places like indonesia and sri lanka and india.

Question 12

Impacts of globalisation - list the environmental challenges that globalisation brings ( there are 4).

Answer 12

1. Global warming
2. Air and water pollution
3. Overfishing
4. Overpopulation

Question 13

Impacts of globalisation - list the impacts on

1. Individual level
2. Local level
3. National scale
4. Global scale

Answer 13

1. Products to use and choice - communications- wages- work
   - ability to travel
2. Employment - trade - communications
3. Employment - trade - sports - TNCs - communication
4. TNCs and sport and trade of goods and ideas - communication

Question 14

What are the features of globalisation? Positives

Answer 14

• Improvements in transport that allow quicker trade and travel between countries.
• Advances in communication technology
• Advances in computer technology
• Growth of very large companies or TNCs
• Changes to the organisations that control trade between countries.

Question 15

Who are the winners in the world of globalisation?

Answer 15

TNCs

People who like TNCs products

Question 16

What groups are exploited in this world of globalisation .

Answer 16

Poorer countries - child labour- low wages - are a result of this -