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