DP Geography Questionbank

Examine the reasons for the resistance to globalization on either the national or local scale.

“Global interactions always lead to positive environmental change.” Discuss this statement.

Discuss the economic and environmental consequences of more people choosing to buy locally produced food and goods rather than globalized products.

Using examples, analyse the role civil societies play in national resistance to global interactions.

“Barriers to globalization are no longer falling but are rising instead.” Discuss this statement.

“Geographical differences in wealth are increasing, not decreasing.” Using examples, discuss this statement.

“People living in the world’s most peripheral regions do not experience a ‘shrinking world’.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

In a global context, analyse what is meant by “core areas” and “peripheries”.

Examine the effects of the development of communications upon international interactions.

Examine how different global flows are affected by the availability of information and communications technology (ICT) and transport.

Examine the ways in which the world’s cities and their societies are becoming increasingly uniform.

Examine the challenges that increased global adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) brings to different places.

Referring to named countries, analyse how people’s participation in information and communications technology (ICT) networks is changing.

“Globalization is a constantly accelerating process.” Discuss this statement.

Examine the effects of the development of communications upon international interactions.

Using examples, analyse how economic and political factors affect global migration flows.

Explain how the actions of world trading organizations and financial institutions (such as the International Monetary Fund) influence global financial flows.

Discuss the reasons for the global diffusion of consumer culture.

Using examples, analyse the reasons why some places have become international outsourcing hubs.

Examine how disparities between countries give rise to different global flows.

“The rich get richer but the poor get poorer as a result of global interactions.” Discuss this statement.

Examine the reasons for the resistance to globalization on either the national or local scale.

“Global interactions always lead to positive environmental change.” Discuss this statement.

Using examples, explain the growing need for environmental management at a global scale.

Discuss the economic and environmental consequences of more people choosing to buy locally produced food and goods rather than globalized products.

Examine the ways in which the world’s cities and their societies are becoming increasingly uniform.

Explain why the increasing needs of some countries for one or more raw materials are a cause of environmental concern.

Using examples, analyse the role of global interactions in the growth of environmental awareness.

Analyse the causes and environmental consequences of the international relocation of polluting industries.

Using one or more examples, analyse the geographic challenges associated with transboundary pollution.

Examine how far the social and environmental costs of globalization can be reduced without also losing its benefits.

Analyse varying ways in which agro-industrialization has led to environmental degradation.

Explain how global interactions can lead to greater environmental awareness.

Examine the effects of the development of communications upon international interactions.

Examine the reasons for the resistance to globalization on either the national or local scale.

Using examples, analyse the increasing uniformity of many of the world’s urban landscapes.

“People living in the world’s most peripheral regions do not experience a ‘shrinking world’.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Discuss the reasons for the global diffusion of consumer culture.

Examine the challenges that increased global adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) brings to different places.

“Globalization involves the imposition of Western culture on the entire world.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Examine how far the social and environmental costs of globalization can be reduced without also losing its benefits.

Examine the loss of distinctiveness that some places experience as a result of global interactions.

Analyse the spatial and temporal pattern of adoption of one or more branded commodities.

“The interdependence of countries has been greatly exaggerated.” Using examples, discuss this statement.

“Barriers to globalization are no longer falling but are rising instead.” Discuss this statement.