Year 11 Geography - Globalisation Glossary

Definition: The modification of global products and ideas to suit local conditions.

• Globalisation

• Global shift

• Glocalisation

• Global inertia

Definition: The increased ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   of people and countries, resulting from the ​ (c)   integration of trade, finance, people, and ideas in one ​ (d)   marketplace is a definition of ​ (e)   .

• interconnectedness
• interdependence
• expanding
• global
• globalisation

Definition: The extent to which a location, good, service or information is available to as many people as possible.

• Adaptation

• Accessibility

• Anthropogenic

• Asymptomatic

Definition: Based on the notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, energy, time and/or other resources to overcome.

True or false: Spatial reorganisation is a process whereby geographies of production and consumption are transformed.

Definition: The process by which places can be said to become closer to each other as the time taken to travel between them decreases.

• Time-space convergence

• Multinational corporation

• Interconnection

• International integration

Definition: The transfer or dispersal of cultural elements from one group of people to other groups of people.

• Epicentre

• Adaption

• Diffusion

• Transmission

Definition: Lower unit costs achieved by large-scale output.

​ (a)   ​ (b)   refers to the tendency of an industry to ​ (c)   in a particular place even when the ​ (d)   for its location no longer ​ (e)   e.g. Nike is headquartered in the US despite most manufacturing happening in Bangladesh.

• Global
• inertia
• stay
• factors
• exist

Definition: ​ (a)   ​cities are centres of ​ (b)   economic and ​ (c)   authority. They are places where the wold's most important ​ (d)   and ​ (e)   institutions are based and where decisions that 'drive' the global economy are made.

• World
• global
• cultural
• financial
• corporate