GEOGRAPHY A LEVEL EDEXCEL PAPER 2
GEOGRAPHY A LEVEL
EDEXCEL PAPER 2
[Document subtitle]
[DATE]
[COMPANY NAME]
[Company address]
, Certainly! Here is a numbered list of questions based on the extensive information you
provided, along with their corresponding answers:
1. **What is globalization?**
- The growing interdependence of countries, people, and cultures worldwide through
increasing connections including trade in goods and services and flows of capital,
technology, and ideas.
2. **What does "shrinking world" refer to?**
- Although physical distances remain unchanged, technology has massively reduced the
time it takes to trade, travel, and communicate globally.
3. **Name three transport developments that have facilitated globalization.**
- Railways, Aircraft, Containerisation.
4. **List four ICT developments that have contributed to globalization.**
- Mobile phones/telephones, The internet, GIS/GPS, Broadband/fibre optics.
5. **Name three major political and economic organizations established post-WW2.**
- World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Trade Organisation (WTO).
6. **Why were these organizations needed after WW2?**
- To promote economic development, prevent the spread of communism, and oversee
international agreements following the economic weakness of Western nations.
7. **What are some trade restrictions?**
- Tariffs, Quotas, Embargo, Subsidies.
8. **What is a tariff?**
- A tax placed on goods imported from other countries.
GEOGRAPHY A LEVEL
EDEXCEL PAPER 2
[Document subtitle]
[DATE]
[COMPANY NAME]
[Company address]
, Certainly! Here is a numbered list of questions based on the extensive information you
provided, along with their corresponding answers:
1. **What is globalization?**
- The growing interdependence of countries, people, and cultures worldwide through
increasing connections including trade in goods and services and flows of capital,
technology, and ideas.
2. **What does "shrinking world" refer to?**
- Although physical distances remain unchanged, technology has massively reduced the
time it takes to trade, travel, and communicate globally.
3. **Name three transport developments that have facilitated globalization.**
- Railways, Aircraft, Containerisation.
4. **List four ICT developments that have contributed to globalization.**
- Mobile phones/telephones, The internet, GIS/GPS, Broadband/fibre optics.
5. **Name three major political and economic organizations established post-WW2.**
- World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Trade Organisation (WTO).
6. **Why were these organizations needed after WW2?**
- To promote economic development, prevent the spread of communism, and oversee
international agreements following the economic weakness of Western nations.
7. **What are some trade restrictions?**
- Tariffs, Quotas, Embargo, Subsidies.
8. **What is a tariff?**
- A tax placed on goods imported from other countries.
