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WorksheetsGoing Global
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 52mins
1. At the very beginning of building civilizations, what were the first extensive trade routes made of?
The first extensive trade routes were up and down the great rivers.
The first extensive trade routes were back and forth between caves that cavemen lived in.
The first extensive trade routes were up and down Africa because that's where the first people lived.
The first extensive trade routes were between shipping ports on the Mediterranean Sea.
By the 1st century CE, what were two things that linked and created trade between East Asia and Western Europe?
1) Pirates
2)Mediterranean Maritime (shipping) Trades
3) Marriage between royal families
4) The Silk Road
Answers one and two
Answers two and three
Answers three and four
Answers 1 and 3
Answers 2 and 4
The great Age of Exploration, lasting from the 15th century to the late 17th century, would see a further expansion of trade due to what?
The contraction of new diseases shared by people from other countries
The discovery of new peoples and cultures, and the establishment of colonies.
War between countries
Alliances between countries
In the 21st century, global unions, such as the European Union (EU), the Commonwealth, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), regulate their member countries, to ensure what? (Click on all answers that are correct. Hint: there's more than one correct answer)
Fair trade agreements
fair competition between businesses
guard against monopolies taking over
education for all
1. In 1989, a British engineer and computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, developed a network of interlinked information. What was this invention called?
The Television (TV)
The Computer
Satellites
World Wide Web (or commonly known as the internet)
1. How did the internet revolutionise business on a global scale?
The internet allowed people to make phone calls which before they could not do.
The internet allowed people to browse and order products online without ever having to leave our homes – supplied by companies that could be located at the other side of the world.
The internet allowed people could travel to see and meet the people they are selling and buying things from.
Business became more difficult because there were too many options on the internet.
What is the difference between needs and wants?
Needs are the things that we must have in order to live. Wants are the other things we would like to have, to make us more comfortable or to make us feel happier.
Needs are things that we must have but wants are things that we cannot live without.
Needs are things that you will die without. Wants are things that you might die if you don't have it but you probably won't die without it.
You need something when you really want it.
1. Which of the following is NOT something you need:
food
computer
water
shelter
Define: Imports
Goods and services that a country produces and sells to another country.
Goods and services that a country buys from another country.
Define: Exports
Goods and services that a country buys from another country.
Goods that a country produces and sells to another country.
When imports are greater than exports, the country has a ____________________________.
positive balance of trade
negative balance of trade
When exports are greater than imports, the country has a __________________________.
positive balance of trade
negative balance of trade
What is the world’s biggest industry
Technology
Media (tv shows, movies, advertisements etc.)
Tourism
Construction
The Tourist Industry is responsible for over how many jobs worldwide?
100 thousand
10 million
500 thousand
250 million
Tourism is the main source of income for 80% of the world’s _______ countries.
Poorest
Richest
Middle/Average
Does mass tourism help or hurt local communities of some countries?
It helps because it creates more jobs for more people.
It hurts because local workers are often badly paid, with very poor working conditions.
True or False: A large percentage (%) of the money earned by tourism goes back to the multi-million dollar corporations from other places, not to the local community.
True
False
What is a long-term effect of the huge numbers of tourists coming to a local community? (Choose all that apply. Hint: there's more than one correct answer)
Local people no longer farm their land, but are pushed into the tourist industry.
Local people perform cultural shows and dances for tourists that some people believe are disrespectful of their traditional values.
Local people become an exotic spectacle that tourists gape at.
Local people make more money and so they can start doing other jobs that eventually help their community grow into a developed, prosperous city.
Besides hurting local communities, what else does mass tourism hurt?
The tourists because they are spending too much money.
Big companies because they make too much money from the tourists.
Wildlife and nature (from the pollution that tourists bring)
International Trade
What is Eco-tourism (also known as “green tourism”)?
Ecotourism is another kind of tourism that harms the environment specifically.
Ecotourism allows tourists to visit exotic places with animals and habitats that are endangered around the world, but makes sure that the environment is protected
Ecotourism is very expensive and therefore not a good option for tourists.
Ecotourism has a myth. It does not exist.
Why are small, local businesses dying out?
Multinational companies can make things more cheaply in poorer countries, making it more difficult for many national and local businesses to compete.
Small businesses are not smart enough to compete with the bigger businesses.
Local people prefer shopping at bigger stores that come from other countries.
The people who run the small businesses are old and tired so they are closing their shops.
What does outsourcing mean?
When local companies work together to fight against big multinational companies.
When multinational companies have their headquarters in developed countries, but their factories are based in developing countries, where labour and premises are cheaper.
When multinational companies decide to be more fair to local companies and they end up working together.
When the source of supplies for a multinational company comes from inside the same country as that company.
Is it nice to have a job at a “sweatshop factory”?
No because workers, including children as young as ten, have been forced to endure 10–16 hour days, working for as little as 10 to 20 cents an hour.
Yes because that way I can have a job as young as I want and make my own money.
Should multinational companies be against the law?
Yes, because they are able to charge much lower prices than local businesses which is unfair.
Not necessarily because in some cases outsourcing to developing countries has been responsible for creating more jobs, and offering higher wages and better working conditions than many traditional trades, such as farming.
What is the Fair Trade Movement?
It allows for free international trade.
It wants to make multinational companies illegal.
It is not real.
It is committed to helping local workers and farmers in developing communities.
How does the Fair Trade movement help?
I told you, it's not real.
Money from Fair Trade products goes towards improving the working conditions, local sustainability and trade terms for farmers and workers, and their community
It helps local businesses by getting rid of multinational companies.
Because it allows for free international trade, companies can charge lower prices for things which is good for local people because they can buy things for cheaper.
