Global Systems and Global Governance | AQA A-Level Geography (7037)

Global Systems and Global Governance

265 questions
20 subtopics
Component 2 Sections A and B, both compulsory
Component 2

The flows of capital, labour, goods and ideas that bind places together, the institutions that try to govern them, and the global commons — with Antarctica as the worked case.

Everyone sits this as Section A of Component 2.

Sample questions from Global Systems and Global Governance

Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.

Global Flows of Capital, Labour, Goods and Information

Why are skilled workers significant in the global flow of labour?

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Skilled workers possess specialised qualifications or expertise that are in demand internationally, leading to brain drain from some countries and brain gain in others.
Transport and Communications in Globalisation

How have databases and cloud computing accelerated globalisation?

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They enable storage, processing, and real-time sharing of vast amounts of data across locations, allowing businesses to coordinate operations globally.
Unequal Flows and Global Stability

How can unequal flows within global systems promote development?

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By enabling knowledge sharing, remittance income and access to global capital.
Transnational Corporations

What is profit repatriation and why is it considered a negative impact of TNCs?

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When TNCs transfer profits back to their home country rather than reinvesting in the host country, reducing local economic benefits.
What Global Governance Means

What role do institutions play in global governance?

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They are organisations and bodies that create, monitor, and enforce rules governing international relations and global systems.
The Global Commons

What happens when many individuals simultaneously pursue self-interest in using a shared resource?

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Cumulative overexploitation occurs as the combined impact of all users exceeds sustainable levels.
Threats to Antarctic Resources

What environmental damage would mineral extraction cause in Antarctica?

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Habitat destruction, pollution, and infrastructure development in a pristine wilderness environment.
UNEP, NGOs and the Limits of Antarctic Governance

How does Antarctic governance serve as a model for managing other global commons?

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It demonstrates how international cooperation through treaties and protocols can successfully manage shared resources, providing lessons for addressing other transboundary environmental challenges.

The 20 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
Global Flows of Capital, Labour, Goods and Information	Recall questions on foreign direct and portfolio investment and remittances, permanent and temporary migration of skilled and unskilled workers, containerisation and supply chains, flows of financial, tourism, education and business services, digital networks, and global marketing by TNCs.	17
Global Patterns of Production and Distribution	Recall questions on where manufacturing has shifted and why, and on the importance of transport hubs to distribution.	8
Transport and Communications in Globalisation	Recall questions on air freight, high-speed rail, the internet and mobile telephony as accelerators of globalisation.	15
Security, Tariffs and Trade Barriers	Recall questions on the effect of security and customs procedures on trade and on what tariff reduction and quota removal achieve.	10
Forms of Global Interdependence	Recall questions on economic, political, social and environmental interdependence between states.	8
Unequal Flows and Global Stability	Recall questions on flows of people, money, ideas and technology, how unevenly they are spread and why trade reliance can deter conflict.	16
World Trade Patterns and Market Access	Recall questions on growing trade volumes, shifting partners and investment flows, dominant blocs, emerging and less developed economies and their trading relationships, and on differential market access, trading agreements, tariffs and the effects on economic and societal well-being.	13
Transnational Corporations	Recall questions on what a TNC is, its spatial organisation and production, vertical and horizontal integration, intra-firm trade and marketing, its positive impacts through employment, technology, infrastructure and government finances, and negative impacts through profit repatriation, on workers and the environment and through cultural homogenisation.	16
Trade in Food and Manufactured Goods	Recall questions on what should be understood about a food commodity and a manufactured product, and on trade in everyday life.	16
Case Study: A Transnational Corporation	Recall questions on what a TNC case study must cover, and on Apple's headquarters, the spatial organisation of its production, its assembly linkages and global supply chain, its marketing and sales, and its positive and negative impacts on host countries such as China.	13
What Global Governance Means	Recall questions on the meaning of global governance and on the place of norms and international law within it.	14
Scales of Governance	Recall questions on the local, regional, national, international and global scales of governance and how they interact, why multi-scalar analysis matters, the tension between national sovereignty and global agreements, and the actors besides nation-states that shape global governance.	17
The Global Commons	Recall questions on what the global commons are and on the high seas, the atmosphere and Antarctica as examples.	14
The Physical Character of Antarctica	Recall questions on why the continent is the coldest, driest and windiest, and on its unusually high average elevation.	9
The Southern Ocean and Climate Threats to Antarctica	Recall questions on the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Convergence, why Antarctica is a global common, and on climate threats including sea ice loss, ice sheet melting, ice shelf collapse, sea level rise, the vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet, thermal expansion and basal melting.	11
Threats to Antarctic Resources	Recall questions on overfishing, the keystone role of krill, the legacy of whaling and the minerals thought to lie beneath.	15
The Antarctic Treaty	Recall questions on when the treaty was signed and took effect, the purpose it sets, and how it handles territorial claims and military use.	17
UNEP, NGOs and the Limits of Antarctic Governance	Recall questions on the UN Environment Programme and how NGOs research, document, publicise, lobby and campaign on Antarctica, why its governance matters worldwide through ice melt, Antarctic Bottom Water and as a model for other commons, and on weak enforcement, non-signatories, national interests and future challenges.	15
Benefits and Costs of Globalisation	Recall questions on wealth creation, development, integration and stability as benefits of globalisation, and on unequal wealth distribution, widening inequality within countries, injustice, unfair trade practices and unequal power relations as its costs.	9
Conflict, Environmental Costs and Critiquing Globalisation	Recall questions on resource conflict, cultural tension and geopolitical rivalry, environmental costs from trade, resource depletion and industrial relocation, and on critiquing globalisation for different groups and places using quantitative and qualitative approaches.	12

Global Systems and Global Governance is 265 of the 3,320 questions in the guide.Get the guide, £7

How the guide is worked

Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.

Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.