Year 8 Geography Global Relationships and Inequality

The  faster and cheaper movement around the world of people, goods, money and information

A tax imposed on imports

 Responsible for massive improvements in global communications.

Includes languages, beliefs, customs and traditions.

A large business organisation that has a home base in one country and operates globally

Poeple  work long hours in extreme heat,  low wages with working conditions and safety  poor.

Organisations that often run campaigns to help people in poverty or to protect human rights

A product that revolutionised the storage, retrieval and movement of information.

 way people in other countries take on aspects of Western culture like food, clothes and music.

The technology with the most potential to bridge the digital divide in developing countries is?

An international organisation that oversees international trade

Make global positioning systems (GPS) possible.

 TNC'S manufacturing plants in developing countries are for the following reasons.

 Buy their inputs from around the world, tend to manufacture goods in low-cost locations,

 It specifies how much a unit of one currency is worth compared to another currency

The world has been changed by it through trade, migration, tourism, ICT and the media.

Everyone is part of a web of economic, social, cultural and political relationships

Has  increased the speed and reduced the cost of moving people, goods, money and information

Allows information to be accessed or shared quickly. It also enables commercial transactions.

rights based on the idea that all human beings are equal, and deserve fair and equal treatment