Globalization: Supply Chains, Trade & Unequal Effects — Practice · Grade 10 Social Studies

Chapter: Global Networks, Rights & Political Transitions

What this practice covers

By the end of Globalization: Supply Chains, Trade & Unequal Effects you should be able to:

6 questions, written answer, each with a worked explanation.

Vocabulary used: context, evidence, interpretation, supply chain, value added.

Problem 1

Why is a product’s export price not the same as local workers’ income?
Answer and explanation

Identify each stage, its location, work, ownership, and value measure. Gross export receipts are not the same as local wages or domestic value added. A supply-chain explanation follows mechanisms rather than equating one national label with the whole product.

Problem 2

Why is globalization not simply an absence of rules?
Answer and explanation

Compare the actual rule and implementation in a stated period. Open exchange does not mean an absence of government, and restriction does not automatically produce equal wellbeing. Identify who benefits, who bears costs, and which alternatives are available.

Problem 3

How can economic growth coexist with local job losses?
Answer and explanation

State the population and measure before claiming everyone benefits or everyone loses. Compare groups and time periods with consistent definitions. An aggregate increase does not establish its distribution or the cause of every local change.

Problem 4

Why can the same network support efficiency and transmit disruption?
Answer and explanation

Explain the network mechanism and its limits. Interdependence is neither automatic harmony nor automatic crisis. Compare concentration, inventories, substitutability, contracts, and institutional responses rather than assuming every connection has the same effect.

Problem 5

Illustrative product: sale revenue is 100 units, imported components cost 60, and local wages are 15. Other costs and returns use the remainder. Calculate the remainder after components and explain why it is not all wages or profit.
Answer and explanation

The remainder after imported components is 40 units, including the stated 15 in local wages and other costs or returns. It is not automatically profit or household income. The invented figures illustrate accounting distinctions rather than a historical national estimate.

Subtract 60 from 100 to obtain 40.

Identify 15 as the stated wage amount.

Request all other costs and ownership information.

Response criteria

  • Describe the historical context and institutions accurately.
  • Connect relevant evidence to an explained conclusion.
  • Represent particular perspectives without stereotypes or invented testimony.
  • Identify an evidentiary limitation or a distinction that qualifies the claim.

Problem 6

A country’s trade total rises. What evidence would show whether a particular community benefited?
Answer and explanation

Compare its employment, wages, prices, services, environmental exposure, and available alternatives over the stated period. Trade totals measure aggregate exchange, not the distribution of benefits or every local cause.

Response criteria

  • Describe the historical context and institutions accurately.
  • Connect relevant evidence to an explained conclusion.
  • Represent particular perspectives without stereotypes or invented testimony.
  • Identify an evidentiary limitation or a distinction that qualifies the claim.

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