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Flashcards by connorbuckler, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by connorbuckler
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| Question | Answer |
| what are the social impacts to food miles? | Farmers switching from subsistence farming (food for family) to Commercial farming (food is produced to sell) make more money due to the high demand of food |
| what impacts do food miles have on local people? | This reduces the amount of food produced for local people, which they then have to import expensive food. |
| what environmental impacts do food miles have? | chemicals used to grow increasing amounts of crops can polute and harm the environment |
| what cheff encourages people to buy food locally? | Gordan Ramsey |
| what effect does buying your food locally have? | helps to reduce the food miles and reduces carbon emissions as it hasn’t travelled a long distance. It also helps to support local farmers and businesses. |
| what negative impacts do the reduction of food miles have on LEDCs? | it causes them to go out of business and lose their jobs, because people are going more local when buying food |
| What causes Globalisation? | Globalisation is caused by international trade, international investment & improvements in communications. |
| What are some improvements in transport? | Increase in airports, high speed trains & larger ships. |
| What do improvements to transport mean to businesses? | These improvements have made it quicker and more convenient for businesses all over the globe to communicate to each other in person. |
| what does improvements in transport mean to TNC's? | It makes it easier to source supplies from all over the world as well as importing their products all over the world. |
| what are the social advantages to TNC's? | TNC’s create jobs in all the countries they are located in. Employees in LEDC’s e.g. India get a more reliable income from working in the factories than working in paddy fields. |
| what advantages do TNC's bring to the area? | TNC’s spend money to improve the local infrastructure of the area e.g. airports, Roads & Bridges. New Technology and wisdom are brought to LEDC’s |
| what are disadvantages to TNC's? | Employees work long hours (12hours) in poor conditions. they get payed much less than MEDC workers eventhough they do more work |
| what are disadvantages to jpeoples jobs security with TNC's in LEDC's? | the job security isn't safe, workers could lose their jobs if a TNC could one day decide to move to cheaper locations |
| what are the disadvantages with profits to TNC's? | The profits from the production go straight to the headquarters in the MEDC. They aren’t reinvested in the LEDC. |
| what is an example of a TNC? | Coke Cola Nike Adidas Puma |
| what are social impacts ofm producing more energy? | Power plants are huge and are unsightly, the building and presence causes residents to move away from the area. |
| what effects do power plants have on people? | Power plants produce radioactive waste that can cause illnesses such as Cancer and Radiation Poisoning. |
| what positive impacts does power plants have on the people? | job creation for local residents to build and maintain the plants |
| what are the positive impacts to the economy with power plants? | Countries with a lot of energy resources e.g. coal will benefit as other countries will buy energy from them and the country will become richer. |
| name an example of a country becoming richer from other nations buying their energy? | China, the Three Gorges Damn, a source of hydro-electric power |
| what negative impact will power stations have on the environment? | burning fossil fuels will release corbon dioxide which adds to global warming, this will cause sea levels to rise, cause extreme weather and will make some species extinct. |
| what problems do food supplies face with an increasing population? | The increase in the world’s population also needs to be met with more food supplies. |
| what environmental impacts do food supplies have? | Transporting food by plane and vans produces carbon dioxide. The more food miles travelled the more carbon dioxide produced. The carbon dioxide adds to Global Warming. |
| what are positive impacts to food miles? | A wide range of food is available all year round. E.g. bananas in December (out of season foods) |
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