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Junior Cycle Geography: Globalisation

How often Globalisation comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024. most years

Globalisation, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Globalisation.

(a)A company with plants in many countries, such as Apple in Cork, is a?
  1. Family-run business
  2. Multinational company
  3. Co-operative creamery
(b)Why do many US multinationals set up in Ireland?
  1. Large reserves of oil and coal here
  2. Ireland has Europe's lowest wages
  3. EU access and English speakers
(c)What does globalisation mean?
  1. The world becoming more interconnected
  2. Each country making all its own goods
  3. Countries cutting off all their trade links
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(a) Multinational company

(b) EU access and English speakers

(c) The world becoming more interconnected

Your turn: Common Level questions on Globalisation.

Common Level

Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Not asked
2024Q7C
2023Q6A, Q6B
2022Q2C

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Globalisation questions

Globalisation, 2 marks

Which is a NEGATIVE effect of globalisation on a local area?

  1. More trade links with other countries
  2. Wider choice of goods in local shops
  3. Jobs lost when a factory moves abroad
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Jobs lost when a factory moves abroad

Multinationals can move to cheaper locations. In 2009 Dell moved its manufacturing from Limerick to Poland, costing about 1,900 jobs.

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