Geography Alive Chapter 28 Outsourcing

When you hire someone outside your company to do work it is called

• outfitting
• IT
• insourcing
• outsourcing

India has the world's largest?

• democracy
• time zone
• president
• English school

The caste system is

• is gone from India
• only occurs in the North
• has been outsourced to the US
• is still a force in society, though changing

There are this many time zones

• 12
• 24
• 1
• 57

There is approximately this much of a time difference between India and the US.

• 10 hours
• 30 minutes
• 24 hours
• 0

People in outsourced jobs in India make

• about the same salary as in the US
• about double what people make in the US
• about 1/2 of what people make in the US
• about 10-20% of what people make in the US

Most educated Indians speak

• Muslim and Hindu
• Farsi and British
• English
• all of the above

India was a former colony of

• Great Britain
• the US
• Australia
• Russia

The use of technology to manage information is called

• ET
• brain waves
• the Internet
• IT

The ability of a country to do a job better or cheaper is called

• awesome
• a comparative advantage
• brain drain
• outsourcing