9 Geography – Geographies of Interconnection

Test Revision
Your test will comprise of the following:

 Section A: Multiple choice questions

 Section B: Short answer questions
 Section C: Data analysis
 Section D: Extended response (6 mark question)

The below checklist has been designed to help you prepare and perform your best on this task. Ensure you tick off all of these topics before
our test!

I have revised the following:

o Lesson 1 - Globalisation
o Explain ‘globalisation’
o Advantages and disadvantages of globalisation
o Give an example of globalisation
o What are the four forms of globalisation

o Lesson 2 - Place
o Explain the geographical concept of ‘place’
o What are some of the different reasons people connect to a ‘place’
o Give examples of places that have spiritual, economic, cultural or historical importance

o Lesson 3 - Technology’s Role in Interconnection

o Give examples of technologies that have connected us
o Give advantages and disadvantages of technologies
o Who (people and countries) does and doesn’t have access to these technologies?
o How are mobile phones and the internet examples of globalisation?

o Lesson 4 – Global Trade

o What is an import and an export?
o What is a good and a service?
o What is containerisation?
o Give advantages and disadvantages of shipping

o Lesson 5 – Laptops as globalisation

o Explain how a laptop an example of a globalised product?
o Explain how the Covid19 outbreak impacted upon the manufacturing and production of electrical technologies such
as laptops?
o Who are the ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ of globalisation?

o Lesson 6 – Benefits and Drawbacks of Global Trade

on People in Asia
o How does global trade benefit some countries, such as South Korea?
o How does global trade negatively impact some countries, such as Bangladesh?

o Lesson 7 – Effects of Manufacturing and Processing

o Explain how manufacturing can lead to negative environmental impacts in some countries such as China?
o What is air pollution?
o What is acid rain?

o Lesson 8 – Different Types of Tourism

o List the four types of tourism and provide examples of each
o Explain how tourism can both positively and negatively impact the natural environment

o Lesson 9 – Wilderness Tourism

o Give advantages and disadvantages of wilderness tourism on places
o Understand and apply the PQE method to analyse graphs, maps, infographics and so on.

Fill in the below table so you are familiar with all the topic vocabulary:
Term Meaning Example
 A location Melbourne, Australia
Place

The process by which people and goods move across borders SHEIN packages
Globalisation

Space, Place, Interconnections, Change, Environment, Sustainability Location, characteristics, time, systems,
SPICESS and Scale economy

Bring goods or services into a country from abroad for sale The Gucci store producing items in Italy
Import and shipping them to stores worldwide

Goods and services that are produced in one country and sold to A Sydney clothing brand shipping items to
Export buyers in another a Melbourne home
Voluntary exchange of goods or services between the economy Tea trade imported from China and
Trade purchased in the US.

A shipping method in which a large amount of material is packaged Celebrity merchandise

Containerisation into large, standardised containers

Worldwide system of computer networks Safari, Google, Microsoft Edge

Internet

Use of online tools to exchange digital data Email, social media, texting apps
Digital communication

What consumers are consuming and spending money on Fast food chains
Good and services

Connection between two or more parties to exchange data Phone networks and new wireless mobile
Interconnections networks

A measurement that seeks to capture a country’s economic output A country produced in one year 5 bananas
Gross domestic product (GDP) each worth $1 and 5 watermelons each
worth $6, then the GDP would be $35
The average per person The US Population was 328 million, whilst
Per capita its economic output was valued at $21.43
trillion
Mapping, Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Scale and Source A landscape includes all BOLTSS: scale,
BOLTSS mapping etc.

Pattern, Quantify, Exception is a strategy used by geographers to Choropleth maps, isoline maps
PQE method interpret thematic maps

Child labour
Manufacturing and production
Primary industry
Work that is mentally, physically, socially, or morally dangerous and Sweatshops in third world countries
harmful to children
The process where machines produce goods from raw materials and Automotive companies, bakeries,
production is the process of converting resources into finished shoemakers, and tailors
products
An industry that produces energy or basic materials such as coal, oil, Mining, agriculture, or forestry
metals etc.

An industry that manufactures goods rather than producing raw Construction industries
Secondary industry materials

An industry that covers a wide range of activities from commerce to Business and personal services, health, and
Tertiary industry administration social work

Air pollution
Environmental health
Contamination of the indoor/outdoor environment by any chemical, Household combustion devices, motor
physical or biological reaction that modifies the natural characteristics vehicle, industrial facilities and forest fires
of the atmosphere
Focuses on the relationships between people and their environment Human health and well-being, safe
communities

Rain that damages plants, rivers, and buildings because it contains The burning of fossil fuels, unethical waste
Acid rain bitter liquids also known as acid released into the atmosphere emission disposal techniques

Social, cultural, and economic phenomenon which entails the Travelling to Bali, Fiji etc.
Tourism movement of people to countries or place outside their usual
environment
Travel to untrammelled and relatively undeveloped protected areas in Travelling in the desert
Wilderness tourism the pursuit of personal development

Responsible travel to natural areas that conserve the environment and A visit to the Galapagos Islands
Ecotourism sustains the well-being of local beings

Vocabulary Cards

Meaning
Globalisation The process by which people and goods move easily
 across borders
Picture example
Opposite word
The opposite to globalisation is nationalisation

Meaning
Import Bringing goods or services into a country from abroad
for sale
Picture example
Opposite word
The opposite word is export, and it tends to be usually
shipped within the country from the country

Meaning
Interconnection Connection between two or more parties to exchange
data
Picture example
Opposite word
The opposite is disconnection where there is no
exchange in between two or more

Meaning
An unsophisticated economy that does not have the best
Developing country technological infrastructure and not enough industrial and
service sectors
Picture example
Opposite word
A sophisticated economy with advanced technological
infrastructure and have diverse industrial and service
sectors