Globalisation

Question 1

How is transportation part of globalisation ?

Answer 1

People are able to go to more places and get more accommodation.

Question 2

How is technology part of globalisation ?

Answer 2

Technology has improved jobs, companies and give access to more communication methods.

Question 3

How is are companies a part of globalisation ?

Answer 3

They have been spread world wide and open up more opportunities and job openings to create better/new connections.

Question 4

What is good about globalisation?

Answer 4

Globalisation has help with connecting us all together as well as bringing new opportunities to the world.

Question 5

What is bad about globalisation?

Answer 5

A lot of things to do with globalisation invalidates human rights and damages the environment.

Question 6

Facts about ELDC factories

Answer 6

1. You can be sacked if you refuse to work overtime.
2. Cheaper to run in other countries such as Asia.
3. Work in Asia/China is cheaper due to a low-skilled workforce

Question 7

Facts about EMDC factories

Answer 7

1. Standard of living is very high in the UK.
2. The money people pay when they buy clothes doesn’t go to the factory workers - it goes straight to the company.
3. Company made £170 million the previous year.

Question 8

ELDC factory conditions

Answer 8

Working in a Harsh, unsafe, environment.
Not being able to pay for essential services.

Question 9

Obstacles to development?

Answer 9

Money, resources

Question 10

Globalisation is when……….

Answer 10

Countries become more connected with each other.

Question 11

Countries that are a part of Jean making/designing.

Answer 11

USA, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Pakistan, Namibia, Australia, Tunisia, turkey, uk, Hungary and Spain

Question 12

1. Give 3 words which could be used to describe working in a sweatshop.

Answer 12

Cruel, dangerous, inhumane

Question 13

2. Give 1 positive of sweatshops

Answer 13

Let’s families have a chance of survival.

Question 14

1. Do you know how to find out about a companies’ ethics?

Answer 14

Research, interviews, studies, stories about personal experiences

Question 15

1. How much of the countries wealth comes from garment industry?

Answer 15

3 quarters

Question 16

How many floors had factories in them?

Answer 16

4

Question 17

Who was involved in the rescue operation?

Answer 17

Civilians

Question 18

List 3 facts about Rana Plaza:

Answer 18

1. It fell due to 2 extra Illegal floors.
   
   2. Over 1,000 died.
   3. The owner claimed that the crack was only chipped plaster.

Question 19

1. Who invented the telephone?

Answer 19

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 20

2. What year was the mobile phone invented?

Answer 20

1973

Question 21

things that can be found in a smartphone.

Answer 21

Silver
.cobalt
.gold
.platinum

Question 22

what the scientists are doing and why to mobile phones.

Answer 22

Dissolve the metal into weak acids. Help to manufacture mobile phones in a more safe way.

Question 23

1. Which tech firms are being sued?

Answer 23

Apple, Samsung and Google.

Question 24

2. Why are the tech firms being sued?

Answer 24

Accused of using children to get the materials/metals.

Question 25

3. What minerals does the Democratic Republic of Congo have?

Answer 25

Gold, silver, cobalt, platinum, diamonds, copper.

Question 26

There are many ways to reduce the need for minerals:

Answer 26

• Upgrade less often? If your phone still works, keep using it.
  
  • Ask phone companies if they have a policy on avoiding ‘conflict minerals’, like Coltan from the DRC.
  • Ask phone companies if they have a take-back scheme for recycling old phones (and, if they don’t, put pressure on them to create one!)

Question 27

What is an ethical shop?

Answer 27

An ethical shop will do things like pay fair wages to all workers and not damage the environment.

Question 28

What high street shops do you think are ethical?

Answer 28

Charity shops
Because of reusing and reselling.

Question 29

Main cotton producers?

Answer 29

The main producers of cotton include India, China, Pakistan and Uzbekistan

Question 30

How much cotton is produced each year?

Answer 30

Around 25 million tonnes of cotton are produced every year.

Question 31

Problems of Cotton Farming?

Answer 31

Hazardous chemicals (banned in e.g. the UK but used in many ELDCs) pollute water supplies and harm wildlife habitats and soils. It can also harm people. 8506 litres of water (irrigation and rainfall) are needed on average to grown enough cotton for 1 pair of jeans. More than 50% of topsoil from all farmland was lost in the last century (blown away or washed away), meaning a lot of farmers lose lots of money.

Question 32

Social problems with cotton farming?

Answer 32

Social problems include child labour, and debt or “bonded” labour in which farm workers or their families are forced to work to pay off; long hours and inadequate pay. Falling world prices mean many cotton farmers are falling into debt.

Question 33

5. Identify at least 1 economic problem (a problem to do with money). Explain why it is a problem in your own words.(cotton farming)

Answer 33

Farmers tend to lose a lot of money due to violent weathers which damage their crops.

Question 34

How much did the Aral Sea decrease?

Answer 34

The surface area of the Aral Sea has decreased by 85% due to irrigated cotton farming in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

Question 35

What caused the Aral Sea to decrease? 1

Answer 35

Human engineering that split the rivers which gave water.

Question 36

2

Answer 36

The water in the rivers were used for cotton farming/production.

Question 37

Effects that affected the Aral Sea due to cotton farming? 1Effects

Answer 37

250km away from where it used to be

Question 38

2 effects

Answer 38

1000s of people lost their jobs an example is fishing

Question 39

3 effects

Answer 39

Decades of pollution was left behind when the sea left.

Question 40

4 effects

Answer 40

Almost everyone in the town is sick/poisoned due to deadly dust storms filled with toxic chemicals. Animals/plants would die because of these storms.

Question 41

which 3 strategies you think would have the biggest impact on reducing your carbon footprint in fashion.

Answer 41

Looking at making more biodegradable forms of fabrics.
Buying or selling second hand clothing. This has the advantage of reducing your carbon footprint as well as not letting clothing go to waste and add to your footprint.
Buying less clothing can go along way.