Trade and Transport 🥲 Flashcards
What does it mean to import? :)
- to bring goods into a country
What does it mean to export?
- to send goods out of a country
What is trade?
- Activity or process of buying and selling goods or services
What is “mode of transport” (RIP english 💀)
- a type of transport (duh?) e.g. ( Shan don’t say e g out loud :) )road, rail, or sea
List some types of transport (pretty easy)
- road🚗
- rail🛤
- sea⛴
- air✈️
- pipeline🚽
What do we exchange goods for?
mOnEy
Why do we import goods from other countries?
Because we are useless and can’t make them ourselves 😃
Why do we export good to other countries?
Because they are useless and cant make it THEMselves 😃🔪
Find the wrong word/words and correct it/them:
Fighting other countries provide important links between people all over the word.
Wrong word: Fighting
TRADING WITH other countries creates important links between people all over the world
Is trade possible without transport
The answer is obvious bye 🕳🏃♀️
What are the paths that ships, planes, trains and trucks take called?
rOuTeS
What is a factor (?) about a route?
Ik it doesn’t make sense ^
Route availability e.g. ships cant transport stuff inland (I thought they could 🥲)
What is a factor (?) about speed?
Urgent and perishable goods need to be transported quickly and this is easier via plane ✈️🍓🥓🫐🍪
What is a factor (?) about price?
Bulky products (e.g coal) are cheaper to transport via sea than air ⛴>✈️
What is a factor (?) about time?
Teachers notes answer: A cruise could be much more pleasurable than flying even tho is is slower (makes no sense)
Answer: SOME STUFF LIKE PERISHABLE GOODS NEED TO BE TRANSPORTED QUICKLY BUT SOME ACTIVITIES DON’T RQUIRE QUICK TRANSPORTATION SUCH AS A CRUISE 😑
Wo’ i’ car’o
Commercial goods that are transported by ship, truck, sail, air