Globalization - AH

The use of materials, tools, and skills to meet human needs is called

• technology

• innovation

• consumerism

• globalization

What has led to much of the increased productivity today? 

• Computer

• internet

• mobile phones

Computers have gotten smaller, faster and more powerful because of the development of 

• vacuum tubes

• transistors

• silicon microchips

What led to the start of the Internet?

• Launch of Sputnik

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Need for better governmental communication

E-Commerce allows you to buy and sell goods on the Internet

• True

• False

This device has led to more people being connected than ever before

• mobile phone

• smart phone

• personal computer

The tendency of businesses, technologies, ideas, and people to spread throughout the world is called

• Globalization

• interconnectedness

• E-commerce

Globalization has allowed _______________ to sell their goods in every corner of the planet

• multi (trans) national coporations

• conglomerates

• monopolies

Globalization is good because of an ________________ in standard of living , but is bad because there is a _____________ in local cultures and traditions

• increase / decrease

• decrease / increase

• increase / increase

• decrease / decrease

NAFTA is the 

• North American Free Trade Agreement

• North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement

• North American Free Trade Association

• North Atlantic Free Trade Association