Unit 4: Power, Places and Networks (HL)

Topic 4.2: Global networks and flows Questions

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A flow that must stay physical despite the rise of the internet is…
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Estimates of the size of illegal global flows are unreliable because they are…
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A Belt-and-Road loan for a port in a developing country is an example of…
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4Explain6 marks
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Explain how joining a trading bloc can change the global financial flows reaching a member country.
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Joining a trading bloc such as the EU or ASEAN tends to…
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6Distinguish4 marks
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Distinguish between a digital flow and a physical flow, using examples.
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Information and communications technology has made the world feel smaller because it…
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Which is a 'responsible-production' strategy used by TNCs?
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Money a migrant worker sends home to family abroad is called…
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The digital divide is best described as…
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11Outline4 marks
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Outline two ways in which digital networks have deepened global interconnection.
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Which of these is a flow that has largely moved onto the internet?
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13Explain4 marks
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Explain two reasons why the data on illegal global flows is hard to measure.
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14Suggest4 marks
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Suggest two ways in which the cloud has changed how a global business can operate.
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15Explain6 marks
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Explain how remittances sent by migrant workers affect the economies of the countries they are sent to.
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A transnational corporation (TNC) is a firm that…
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17Discuss16 marks
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Discuss the view that digital networks have done more to connect the world than to divide it.
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18Analyse12 marks
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Analyse the strategies that transnational corporations use to run their international production and supply networks more responsibly.
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19Analyse12 marks
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Analyse how two named transnational corporations connect different places through their supply chains, flows of money, and the diffusion of branded ideas.
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20Examine12 marks
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Examine how two named transnational corporations connect different places through supply chains, flows of money and profits, and the diffusion of branded ideas and culture, applying the concepts of place and scale.
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