Geography Exam (page 156 – 246)
Define and give examples: - Sustainability
- Spatial reorganisation - Integration
- Time space convergence - Globalisation
- Spatial interaction - Diffusion
- Centralisation - Forced vs voluntary
- Specialisation - Adoption
- Comparative advantage - Accessibility
- MNC
- Containerisation
- Core and Periphery - Global/international integration
- Global shift - Glocalisation
- Commodity - Adaptation
- Culture - Global networks
- Good - Interconnection
- Asian tigers - Friction of distance
- Tiger cubs - Global citizens
- BRICS - Imperial diffusion
True or false
- Diffusion will occur even if people do not adopt an idea.
- Money and time can limit global networks and interconnections.
- The adoption of an idea can be demonstrated on an S-curve.
- The Age of Discovery is an excellent example of glocalisation.
- Imperial networks were as complicated as present day global networks.
- Specialisation, centralisation, improved technology and improved transportation have allowed MNCs to
develop global networks and interconnections.
- The change in politics across the world allowed for the growth in global businesses.
- The periphery countries exploit the core countries.
- A change in political attitudes after the Cold war allowed the spreading of global businesses.
- Globalisation occurs through the buying of companies such as Arnott’s and R.M Williams.
- The rise of MNCs is an example of centralisation.
- The rise of MNCs is an example of specialisation.
- The large population of a city makes it a world city.
- Global shift refers to the movement of power, finance and wealth from one part of the world to another.
- Rostow’s model of economic growth explains how countries move through stages of economic development.
He represents these stages on an S-curve.
- The transformation from an underdeveloped country to a developed country occurs when there is a shift from
dominantly primary activities to secondary activities.
- There are four stages of economic development in Rostow’s economic growth model.
- Tertiary activities involve the selling of goods and the offering of services.
- Primary activities refer to activities such as farming, fishing, mining and hunting which are involved with the
extraction of raw materials.
- Wallerstein’s economic world system model explains how imperialism has been replaced by a world economic
system.
Introduction:
o What has assisted globalisation? – knowledge and technology…
o How has globalisation influenced social, economic and environmental factors around the globe.
o How can new trade agreements influence integration?
o Explain how an S-curve can represent diffusion and adoption of an idea, good or service.
o Are the costs associated with accessibility decreasing or increasing? Use examples.
, Geography Exam (page 156 – 246)
o Explain how money is now a form of information and not just a good?
o Explain using an example, why there are political and legal restrictions and who can impose them.
o Is the amount of information that can be sent, still limited, example?
o Positive vs negative effects of global integration.
Page 160 textbook:
o Explain how the real cost of air travel has fallen in recent decades
o What are three examples of factors, other than distance (km), time and money can affect accessibility and
therefore the movement of goods people and information.
o Describe how one example of your own ‘experience’ (Taylor’s term) goes beyond the local scale of your daily
urban system.
o Describe how the world economy affects people’s daily lives on a local scale.
o What is an example of a current event of spatial reorganisation?
o Explain what is meant by spatial reorganisation model being self-reinforcing?
o How does time space convergence result in spatial reorganisation?
Page 160 – 166: EXAMPLES Activity 5
Explain the difference between forced and voluntary diffusion
Sketch and explain how the s-curve illustrates adoption
Difference between early adopters and late adopters.
Explain the process of diffusion, with reference to a product, service or technology.
List the reasons why phone usage has diffused rapidly across the world and popualtion
Explain why some things are not so easily diffused with reference to a product, service or technology.
Age of discovery?
Imperial diffusion, what was the colonial era and why was global dominance so easy for these powers? How did
the colonial era influence international integration?
In what ways can governments limit/restrict the process of global diffusion?
What is ‘reverse diffusion’?
Discuss two limits to diffusion.
How does human behaviour allow for diffusion of ideas/cultures/fads?
Activity 6: 166-169
In no more than 10 lines describe and account for the diffusion of jeans across the globe.
With reference to the diffusion of jeans, state four factors that allowed for the diffusion.
With the use of examples explain the process of glocalisation and discuss why it occurs.
With the use of an example/examples explain the difference between adoption and adaptation.
What does the term mass market mean?
What does the term mass consumption of goods mean? Include an example in your answer.
Give two examples of items that have been adopted but not been adapted.
Is it possible for people of a country to live at a local, national and global scale? Explain.
Explain how imperial diffusion came to an and.
Define and give examples: - Sustainability
- Spatial reorganisation - Integration
- Time space convergence - Globalisation
- Spatial interaction - Diffusion
- Centralisation - Forced vs voluntary
- Specialisation - Adoption
- Comparative advantage - Accessibility
- MNC
- Containerisation
- Core and Periphery - Global/international integration
- Global shift - Glocalisation
- Commodity - Adaptation
- Culture - Global networks
- Good - Interconnection
- Asian tigers - Friction of distance
- Tiger cubs - Global citizens
- BRICS - Imperial diffusion
True or false
- Diffusion will occur even if people do not adopt an idea.
- Money and time can limit global networks and interconnections.
- The adoption of an idea can be demonstrated on an S-curve.
- The Age of Discovery is an excellent example of glocalisation.
- Imperial networks were as complicated as present day global networks.
- Specialisation, centralisation, improved technology and improved transportation have allowed MNCs to
develop global networks and interconnections.
- The change in politics across the world allowed for the growth in global businesses.
- The periphery countries exploit the core countries.
- A change in political attitudes after the Cold war allowed the spreading of global businesses.
- Globalisation occurs through the buying of companies such as Arnott’s and R.M Williams.
- The rise of MNCs is an example of centralisation.
- The rise of MNCs is an example of specialisation.
- The large population of a city makes it a world city.
- Global shift refers to the movement of power, finance and wealth from one part of the world to another.
- Rostow’s model of economic growth explains how countries move through stages of economic development.
He represents these stages on an S-curve.
- The transformation from an underdeveloped country to a developed country occurs when there is a shift from
dominantly primary activities to secondary activities.
- There are four stages of economic development in Rostow’s economic growth model.
- Tertiary activities involve the selling of goods and the offering of services.
- Primary activities refer to activities such as farming, fishing, mining and hunting which are involved with the
extraction of raw materials.
- Wallerstein’s economic world system model explains how imperialism has been replaced by a world economic
system.
Introduction:
o What has assisted globalisation? – knowledge and technology…
o How has globalisation influenced social, economic and environmental factors around the globe.
o How can new trade agreements influence integration?
o Explain how an S-curve can represent diffusion and adoption of an idea, good or service.
o Are the costs associated with accessibility decreasing or increasing? Use examples.
, Geography Exam (page 156 – 246)
o Explain how money is now a form of information and not just a good?
o Explain using an example, why there are political and legal restrictions and who can impose them.
o Is the amount of information that can be sent, still limited, example?
o Positive vs negative effects of global integration.
Page 160 textbook:
o Explain how the real cost of air travel has fallen in recent decades
o What are three examples of factors, other than distance (km), time and money can affect accessibility and
therefore the movement of goods people and information.
o Describe how one example of your own ‘experience’ (Taylor’s term) goes beyond the local scale of your daily
urban system.
o Describe how the world economy affects people’s daily lives on a local scale.
o What is an example of a current event of spatial reorganisation?
o Explain what is meant by spatial reorganisation model being self-reinforcing?
o How does time space convergence result in spatial reorganisation?
Page 160 – 166: EXAMPLES Activity 5
Explain the difference between forced and voluntary diffusion
Sketch and explain how the s-curve illustrates adoption
Difference between early adopters and late adopters.
Explain the process of diffusion, with reference to a product, service or technology.
List the reasons why phone usage has diffused rapidly across the world and popualtion
Explain why some things are not so easily diffused with reference to a product, service or technology.
Age of discovery?
Imperial diffusion, what was the colonial era and why was global dominance so easy for these powers? How did
the colonial era influence international integration?
In what ways can governments limit/restrict the process of global diffusion?
What is ‘reverse diffusion’?
Discuss two limits to diffusion.
How does human behaviour allow for diffusion of ideas/cultures/fads?
Activity 6: 166-169
In no more than 10 lines describe and account for the diffusion of jeans across the globe.
With reference to the diffusion of jeans, state four factors that allowed for the diffusion.
With the use of examples explain the process of glocalisation and discuss why it occurs.
With the use of an example/examples explain the difference between adoption and adaptation.
What does the term mass market mean?
What does the term mass consumption of goods mean? Include an example in your answer.
Give two examples of items that have been adopted but not been adapted.
Is it possible for people of a country to live at a local, national and global scale? Explain.
Explain how imperial diffusion came to an and.
