GLOBALISATION Flashcards

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What is globalisation

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The effective shrinking of the world where people in places become interconnected and interdependent with each other

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Why has the world shrunk?

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Do you just time spray compression and improvement and transport and tech to make places feel closer

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Name 3 TNCs

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Apple Coca-Cola and Nike

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When did globalisation begin?

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It has been going for thousands of years such as with the silk roads but only truly began 30 years ago as it began to speed up

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Name three factors that have caused globalisation to happen quicker

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4 .5 billion people 50% of the worlds population have access to the Internet

Containerships carry 23,000 containers

TV has spread western culture globally

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Explain one factor that is caused globalisation to speed up

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One factor that has caused rapid globalisation is television for example programs such as friends and the coffee shop culture in the program have been watched by people in many countries this means that American/western cultures have been shared around the world so people start to want to live and buy similar products so globalisation speeds up

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Name and define each sector of employment

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The primary sector is a sector which works with the extra extraction of natural resources

The secondary sector is a sector that makes things by manufacturing or construction

The tertiary sector involves services

The quaternary sector involves research and development of products to find innovations and improve them

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Give three examples of jobs in each sector

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Primary jobs would be farming mining fishing and forestry

Secondary jobs would be car factories, carpenters or builders

Tertiary jobs would be shop solicitors nurses

Quaternary jobs would be research AI development and designing of clothes

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Define the term, TNC

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A TNC is a trans national corporation that operates in more than one country

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Explain how Nike uses globalisation to increase its profit

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Global to increase its profit by reducing costs through creating factories in and developing countries. For example, Nike is rapidly moving production to China and Vietnam as labour cost is less as a result Nike makes more profit.

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Explain how not uses a globalisation to increase its sales

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Nike has globalised to increase sales by investing large amounts of money $6 billion a year on advertising for example Cristiano Ronaldo gets up to $30 million a year to wear Nike products as a result when fancy see him and other sponsors athletes on TV they increase sales by fans wanting to be like them.

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What is population density?

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The number of people living in an area per 1 km²

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What is the population distribution?

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Where people are living within the country

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Explain two reasons why the major majority of China’s population live on the east coast

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One reason would be rivers this can be evidenced by the biggest town such a Shanghai Shenzhen and Beijing being at the river mouth. This means that they can have more trade fish is a food source and have fertile land. Another reason would be Climate of the area this can be evidenced by the biggest towns and cities such as Shanghai being in mild and wet climates. This means that more people live there as they are better places to live as it make land more fertile which means more crops are grown.

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Name the five stages of developing an iPhone and where they occur

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Firstly, the raw materials such coltan are extracted from the DRC.

Secondly, components are manufactured in Taiwan and many more.

Thirdly, the iPhone is assembled in Zhengzhou or shenzen

Then it is shipped or flown to North America or Europe

Then it is researched at Apple HQ in California to make the best product can be.

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Explain three reasons why Apple globalised

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One reason why Apple globalised would be to reduce costs through using the spatial division of labour and how people are paid less in developing countries. Another reason would be for fast transport this can be shown by the Boeing 747 carrying 150,000 phones. another reason would be for outsourcing this can be seen by Apple sending their products to be made in fox con 

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How has infrastructure been improved in China?

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Infrastructure has been improved in China by Rhodes rail bridge airport imports being made such as the new daxing airport being the third airport in the capital of Beijing and we have four runways and 100 million passengers a year. There are also 30,000 km of high-speed train network in China.

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How has China’s population benefited from globalisation

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Life expectancy has increased by seven years

It has lifted 800 million people out of poverty

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How has China’s economy benefited from globalisation?

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The average monthly wage has increased dramatically

The GDP has grown by 14.1 times from 1990 to 2018

Seven of the top 10 busiest ports of the world are in China

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Describe what life is like as a worker in the Foxconn factory

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There is no job security zero hour contracts very low $1.80 an hour it is hot stuffy and there is no natural light in the factory long days 7 am to 6 pm.

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Explain how individuals benefit from globalisation

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Consumers and developed countries benefit from cheap products made from around the world if it wasn’t for globalisation we wouldn’t have fashion or food also we wouldn’t have wild music, food music et cetera

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Explain how organisations benefit from globalisation

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Organisations benefit from globalisation as TNCs move their businesses around the world where workers are cheap laws are relaxed or markets for sale are large. They earned huge profits but do pay huge taxes to government.

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Explain how government’s benefit from globalisation

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Governments in developed countries benefit from globalisation as they like to see their countries TNCs doing well abroad as this spreads our countries influence abroad they’re happy when warrants set up in their country as it means good quality jobs for our people. It means that errors in the country that did have factories and now experiencing deindustrialisation and becoming derelict.

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Explain how individual individuals lose out from globalisation

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Workers in developing countries and factories are employed by TNCs and a lucky to have Work that pays them back the same as minimum wage they do tough jobs for long hours with poor conditions in comparison to the huge profit TNCs make they don’t receive a fair wage the jobs aren’t secure Either and people are very unhappy

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Explain how organisations lose out from globalisation
High-quality hand workers such as tailors lose out from globalisation as more people pick fast fashion as it’s cheap cheaper and is made faster
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Explain how governments lose out from globalisation
Government in developing countries lose out from globalisation as TNCs can invest in their country and build factories and create jobs. If they’re really poor they may exploit their raw materials and it will provide well for the country but usually they don’t get paid fairly and also the TNCs move out the country very quickly when wages increase.