Being Part of a Globalised World quiz: N(A)-Level Social Studies (SEAB 2125) quiz

A type of local festival

A policy of closing a country's borders

The study of a country's own history only

The growing connection between countries through the movement of goods, people, money and ideas

Improvements in trade, travel and technology

Cutting off trade between countries

Banning the movement of people

Stopping the spread of ideas

Because it avoids trade and foreign investment

Because it depends on trade, attracts investment and people, and is a hub for shipping, finance and air travel

Because it has no contact with other countries

Because it produces all its own food and resources

Only ever using goods made in Singapore

Never leaving their neighbourhood

Buying imported goods, watching foreign media and travelling overseas

Refusing to use any technology

Because globalisation affects everyone in exactly the same way

Because globalisation has no effect on individuals

Because only the government experiences globalisation

Because their jobs, incomes and lifestyles connect them to the wider world in different ways

Growth, jobs and cheaper, wider choices of goods

Higher unemployment for all workers

Fewer goods available to buy

An end to foreign investment

Guaranteed jobs for everyone

Stronger competition and the risk of job losses

Equal gains for all people

Lower prices with no downsides

Everyone benefits equally

Nobody benefits at all

Some people and industries benefit far more than others

Only the government benefits

By strengthening local traditions automatically

By making people forget how to travel

By stopping all foreign influence

By spreading foreign culture so widely that local traditions can be crowded out

Greater access to ideas, food, music and entertainment from around the world

The loss of all local festivals

A ban on foreign films

Fewer cultural choices for people

Nothing, because borders block all threats

Diseases, crime and extremist ideas crossing borders

Only natural disasters

Only problems within one city

Because closing borders increases trade

Because security has nothing to do with globalisation

Because openness that moves goods and people also moves threats

Because threats never travel between countries

Because they are entirely positive

Because they are entirely negative

Because they have no effect at all

Because the same openness brings both benefits and costs, felt differently by different people

Both sides, with each point supported by an example and a reason

Only the costs of globalisation

Only the benefits of globalisation

A list of words with no explanation