Unit 4 Power, places and networks: Influences on interactions
14 revision questions with answers for Unit 4 Power, places and networks: Influences on interactions, marked HL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Tax placed on imported goods?
- Quota
- TariffRight answer
- Subsidy
- Embargo
What this set covers
Trade rules and barriers that shape interactions between places are covered here. Tariffs, quotas, embargoes, subsidies, dumping, protectionism, customs unions, free trade areas, special economic zones, the digital divide and resource nationalism appear.
- Common mix-up
- Students often mix up a customs union and a free trade area: both remove internal tariffs, but only a customs union adds a common external tariff.
- Revision tip
- Make a quick ladder of trade barriers, from tariff and quota to embargo, giving a one-line example for each. Then test the subsidy and dumping pair.
All 14 questions and answers
Tax placed on imported goods?
Answer: Tariff
Limit on the quantity of a good that may be imported?
Answer: Quota
Government ban on all trade with a particular country?
Answer: Embargo
Policies that shield domestic industries from foreign competition?
Answer: Protectionism
Trade bloc with no internal tariffs and a common external tariff?
Answer: Customs union
Bloc removing tariffs between members, each keeping its own tariffs on outsiders?
Answer: Free trade area
Designated area with tax breaks and relaxed regulation to attract foreign manufacturers?
Answer: Special economic zone
Gap between people with and without access to the internet and computers?
Answer: Digital divide
Standard-sized steel boxes that cut shipping costs and drove global trade?
Answer: Containerisation
Describes countries with no coastline, which often face higher trade costs?
Answer: Landlocked
Civil society protests, such as those at the 1999 Seattle WTO meeting, opposing TNC power?
Answer: Anti-globalisation
Government asserting control over its oil and minerals, e.g. by seizing foreign-owned mines?
Answer: Resource nationalism
Payments to domestic producers that make their goods cheaper than imports?
Answer: Subsidy
Exporting goods at below their production cost to undercut foreign rivals?
Answer: Dumping
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options were written for that question.