Interconnections Term Definitions

Question 1

Tourism

Answer 1

the practice of traveling for recreation

Question 2

Trade

Answer 2

The action of buying and selling goods or services

Question 3

Globalisation

Answer 3

The increasing interconnection between countries including economic, political and cultural exchange between countries

Question 4

Cultural tourism

Answer 4

tourism concerned with a traveler’s engagement with a country or region’s culture

Question 5

Migration

Answer 5

Seasonal movement of animals from one region to another

Question 6

Immigration

Answer 6

The act of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

Question 7

Emigration

Answer 7

The act in leaving one’s own country to settle permanently into another

Question 8

Imports & exports

Answer 8

Imports: bring (goods or services) into a country for sale

Exports: sends (goods or services) into a country for sale

Question 9

Fair trade

Answer 9

trade between companies in which fair prices are paid to the producers

Question 10

E-waste

Answer 10

Discarded electronic equipment

Question 11

Remoteness

Answer 11

Lack of connection with or relationship with something

Question 12

HDI &GPD

Answer 12

(Human development index): a way of comparing nations by measuring life expectancy, education, literacy and income

(Gross domestic product): a measurement of annual value of all the goods and services bought and sold within a country’s borders

Question 13

Literacy

Answer 13

The ability to use basic economic concepts to make decisions about earning, saving, spending and sharing money

Question 14

Infant mortality

Answer 14

The death of children under the age of one year

Question 15

Life expectancy

Answer 15

The average number of years someone is expected to live

Question 16

Medical tourism

Answer 16

Where individuals travel to another country to receive medical care while at the same time receive equal greater care than they would have in their own country

Question 17

Infrastructure

Answer 17

The components necessary for any business or city such as buildings roads electricity etc

Question 18

Ecotourism

Answer 18

A form of tourism that involves visiting a natural environment with the aim of observing, experiencing and learning about it

Question 19

Barter

Answer 19

Exchange goods or services for other goods for services without using money

Question 20

Developed and developing nations

Answer 20

.developed - more industrialised countries and have a higher per capita income levels

Developing - countries less industrialised and have a lower per capita income levels

Question 21

Non-government organisation

Answer 21

Dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view

Question 22

Relative poverty

Answer 22

A standard which is defined in terms of the society in which an individual lives and therefore differs overtime